Category |
Agent |
Occupation |
Available tests (IgE)Skin Serum |
| Animal proteins |
Animal hair, pelt, urine, serum Bovine proteins Prawn, crabs |
Researches, breeders Dairy workers Seafood workers |
+ + + - + + |
| Insects |
Grain mites Bees, wasps Cockroaches Unprocessed silk (silkworm) |
Granary workers, dock workers Aphid and vespid workers Laboratory workers Sericulture workers |
+ + + + + + + + |
| Enzymes |
Subtilisin Trypsin, pancreatin Papain, bromelain |
Detergent workers Pharmaceutical workers Food processors |
+ + + + + + |
| Plant Proteins |
Cereal grain, grain dust Green coffee beans Soybeans Castor beans Tobacco leaf Garlic Psyllium Natural rubber, latex |
Granary workers, millers, dock workers Food processors Dock workers Fertilizer workers Tobacco handlers Food workers Pharmaceutical workers Healthcare workers |
+ - + + + + + + + + + + + + + + |
| Vegetable gums |
Karaya Guar |
Food processors, hairdressers Carpet workers |
+ - + + |
| Anhydrides |
Phthalic anhydride Trimellitic anhydride |
Workers with plastics, pharmaceutical workers Workers with epoxy resins and plastics |
+ + + + |
| Metallic salts |
Platinum salts Nickel |
Platinum refinery workers Metal plating workers |
+ + + + |
| Diisocyanates |
Toluene diisocyanate Other diisocyanates |
Automobile spray painters, isocyanate workers Polyurethane foam workers, plastic molders |
+ + + + |
| Drugs |
Penicillin and other antibiotics |
Pharmaceutical workers |
+ - |
| Wood dust |
Western red cedar (plicatic acid) African apple, ramin wood |
Carpenters, sawmill workers Woodworkers |
- + + + |
| Fluxes |
Colophony (abietic acid) |
Electronics workers, solderers |
- - |