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Preliminary results of our studies of workers in cotton and synthetic textile mills, using aqueous extracts of specific mill and standard dust, showed that reaginic antibodies occurred in workers from both types of mills. Workers with these antibodies were primarily atopic individuals. These findings, together with previously reported results, suggest that immunologic reactivity, possibly to contaminants in the dust, may be important in cotton dust induced respiratory disease. |
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