ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2016
Cross-shift study of exposure-response relationships between bioaerosol exposure and respiratory effects in the Norwegian grain and animal feed production industry.
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- Immune modulating effects of continuous bioaerosol and terpene exposure over three years among sawmill workers in Norway.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Bioaerosol-induced in vitro activation of toll-like receptors and inflammatory biomarker expression in waste workers.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2023Article
- The airborne mycobiome and associations with mycotoxins and inflammatory markers in the Norwegian grain industry.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Circulating miRNAs as molecular markers of occupational grain dust exposure.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Exposure to field vs. storage wheat dust: different consequences on respiratory symptoms and immune response among grain workers.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2018Article
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Abstract
objectiveWe have studied cross-shift respiratory responses of several individual bioaerosol components of the dust in the grain and feed industry in Norway.
methodsCross-shift changes in lung function and nasal congestion, as well as in respiratory and systemic symptoms of 56 exposed workers and 36 referents, were recorded on the same day as full-shift exposure to the inhalable aerosol fraction was assessed. Exposure-response associations were investigated by regression analysis.
resultsThe workers were exposed on average to 1.0 mg/m(3) of grain dust, 440 EU/m(3) of endotoxin, 6 µg/m(3) of β-1,3-glucans, 17×10(4)/m(3) of bacteria and 4×10(4)/m(3) of fungal spores during work. The exposure was associated with higher prevalence of self-reported eye and airway symptoms, which were related to the individual microbial components in a complex manner. Fatigue and nose symptoms were strongest associated with fungal spores, cough with or without phlegm was associated with grain dust and fungal spores equally strong and wheeze/tight chest/dyspnoea was strongest associated with grain dust. Bioaerosol exposure did not lead to cross-shift lung function decline, but several microbial components had influence on nose congestion.
conclusionsExposure to fungal spores and dust showed stronger associations with respiratory symptoms and fatigue than endotoxin exposure. The associations with dust suggest that there are other components in dust than the ones studied that induce these effects.
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