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ArticleERJ open research2015

Fungal contamination of the respiratory tract and associated respiratory impairment among sawmill workers in India.

Asit Adhikari, Subhashis Sahu, Arghya Bandyopadhyay, Paul D Blanc, Subhabrata Moitra

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Article in ERJ open research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Fungal Fragments and Fungal Aerosol Composition in Sawmills.Annals of work exposures and health · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Asit AdhikariErgonomics and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India.
Subhashis SahuErgonomics and Occupational Physiology Laboratory, Department of Physiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India.
Arghya BandyopadhyayDepartment of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India.
Paul D BlancDivision of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Subhabrata MoitraMolecular Respiratory Research Laboratory, Chest Research Foundation, Pune, India.
University of Kalyani · INIndian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata · INUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wood processing workers are exposed to wood-associated microbiological contaminants, including fungi. Our aim was to study the potential association between sputum fungus and adverse respiratory effects in such workers. In a group of sawmill workers, we administered a respiratory questionnaire, performed lung function testing and quantified the proportions of leukocytes in spontaneously expectorated sputum samples. We identified fungal species by DNA sequencing. Of 54 sawmill workers, 19 yielded fungal positive sputum samples (mean age 42.5±10.4 years) and 35 were negative for fungus (mean age 36.9±5.2 years). The fungus was identified as

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