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ArticleSafety and health at work2022

Comparison of Overall Immunity Levels among Workers at Grape Orchard, Rose Greenhouse, and Open-Field Onion Farm.

Anju Maharjan, Ravi Gautam, JiHun Jo, Manju Acharya, DaEun Lee, Pramod Bahadur K C, Jin Gim, Sojung Sin, Hyocher Kim, ChangYul Kim and 4 more

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Article in Safety and health at work, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Anju MaharjanDepartment of Occupational Health, College of Bio and Medical Sciences, Daegu Catholic University, Gyeongsan 38430, Republic of Korea.
Ravi GautamDepartment of Occupational Health, College of Bio and Medical Sciences, Daegu Catholic University, Gyeongsan 38430, Republic of Korea.
JiHun JoDepartment of Occupational Health, College of Bio and Medical Sciences, Daegu Catholic University, Gyeongsan 38430, Republic of Korea.
Manju AcharyaDepartment of Occupational Health, College of Bio and Medical Sciences, Daegu Catholic University, Gyeongsan 38430, Republic of Korea.
DaEun LeeDepartment of Occupational Health, College of Bio and Medical Sciences, Daegu Catholic University, Gyeongsan 38430, Republic of Korea.
Pramod Bahadur K CGraduate School Department of Toxicology, Daegu Catholic University Gyeongsan, 38430, Republic of Korea.
Jin GimBonghwang Nonghyup, Naju 520852, Republic of Korea.
Sojung SinAgricultural Health and Safety Team, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju 54875, Republic of Korea.
Hyocher KimAgricultural Health and Safety Team, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Jeonju 54875, Republic of Korea.
ChangYul KimGraduate School Department of Toxicology, Daegu Catholic University Gyeongsan, 38430, Republic of Korea.
SooYeon LeeDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University Hospital, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea.
SooJin LeeDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea.
Yong HeoDepartment of Occupational Health, College of Bio and Medical Sciences, Daegu Catholic University, Gyeongsan 38430, Republic of Korea.
HyoungAh KimDepartment of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.
Daegu Catholic University · KRRural Development Administration · KRHanyang University Seoul Hospital · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Occupational hazards in crop farms vary diversely based on different field operations as soil management, harvesting processes, pesticide, or fertilizer application. We aimed at evaluating the immunological status of crop farmers, as limited systematic investigations on immune alteration involved with crop farming have been reported yet. Methods: Immunological parameters including plasma immunoglobulin level, major peripheral immune cells distribution, and level of cytokine production from activated T cell were conducted. Nineteen grape orchard, 48 onion open-field, and 21 rose greenhouse farmers were participated. Results: Significantly low proportion of natural killer (NK) cell, a core cell for innate immunity, was revealed in the grape farmers (19.8 ± 3.3%) in comparison to the onion farmers (26.4 ± 3.1%) and the rose farmers (26.9 ± 2.5%), whereas cytotoxic T lymphocyte proportion was lower in the grape and the onion farmers than the rose farmers. The proportion of NKT cell, an immune cell implicated with allergic response, was significantly higher in the grape (2.3 ± 0.3%) and the onion (1.6 ± 0.8%) farmers compared with the rose farmers (1.0 ± 0.4%). A significantly decreased interferon-gamma:interleukin-13 ratio was observed from Conclusion: Our finding suggests the high vulnerability of workplace-mediated allergic immunity in grape orchard farmers followed by open-field onion farmers and then the rose greenhouse farmers.

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Agricultural workersCytokinesImmunityImmunoglobulinsNatural killer cell

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