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Occupational Agents in Bronchial Provocation Tests

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In 1700 Bernardino Ramazzini, Professor of Medicine at the University of Padova, Italy, firstly described grain dust asthma and baker’s asthma [1]. Some 200 years later, in 1911, Karasek and Karasek [2] described asthma caused by exposure to platinum salts in photographic workers. This interest in occupation as a cause of asthma was continued in the late 1960s, mainly through the work of Jack Pepys, in London, England, who conducted routine bronchoprovocation tests with occupational agents and established their importance in the diagnosis of the disease [3]. Around the same time, the problem of occupational asthma was noted by several investigators, including Massimo Crepet, Professor of Occupational medicine at the University of Padova from 1954 until 1980, who organized a pioneering meeting in Padova on “Le allergie professionali” in 1963 [4].

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  1. Institute of Infections and Respiratory Diseases, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

    L. M. Fabbri, A. Papi & A. Ciaccia

  2. Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

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  1. Istituto di Malattie Respiratorie, Policlinico — Pad. Litta, Via F. Sforza, 35, Milano, 20100, Italy

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Fabbri, L.M., Papi, A., Mapp, C.E., Ciaccia, A. (1993). Occupational Agents in Bronchial Provocation Tests. In: Allegra, L., Braga, P.C., Dal Negro, R. (eds) Methods in Asthmology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2263-8_16

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