RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Recent trends in bagassosis in Japan.
JF British Journal of Industrial Medicine
JO Br J Ind Med
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 499
OP 506
DO 10.1136/oem.49.7.499
VO 49
IS 7
A1 A Ueda
A1 K Aoyama
A1 T Ueda
A1 K Obama
A1 T Ueno
A1 S Hokama
A1 S Nomura
YR 1992
UL http://oem.bmj.com/content/49/7/499.abstract
AB The only workers presently exposed to bagasse dust in Japan are the employees of sugar refineries and lacquerware factories. A follow up study of six former cases of bagassosis from among the retired employees of a paper board factory, closed since 1973, showed that none of the subjects still had bagassosis. Examinations of 70 employees of a sugar refinery for allergic reactions also showed no case of bagassosis. Seven cases with suspicious shadows of bagassosis on chest radiographs and four cases with positive serum precipitin to stored bagasse were, however, found among those 70 subjects. The results show the disappearance of a past episode of bagassosis and the possibility of a new occurrence of bagassosis among the employees of sugar refineries and lacquerware factories in the near future in Japan.