Value of the immunological indicators in the study of the health status of the chemical industry workers
Ivashina, S.A.; Poberezkina, D.I.
Zhurnal Mikrobiologii Epidemiologii i Immunobiologii 9: 89-93
1977
ISSN/ISBN: 0372-9311 PMID: 596027 Document Number: 115783
The use of some humoral, cellular and barrier immunity indices in the examination of practically healthy persons having an occupational contact with the complex of pesticides and grisine, an antibiotic intended for fodder revealed the presence of changes in various non-specific immunological reactivity links. The detected changes in the indices of the ingestive and digestive function of neutrophils could be interpreted as a compensatory reaction of the organism in response to the action of chemical agents, whereas reduction of lysozyme content and the appearance in the microbial pattern of deep dermal layers of mannite-splitting and hemolytic froms of microbes pointed to the presence of the first unfavourable shifts in humoral and barrier immunity factors. The indices of immunobiological reactivity were found to be sufficiently sensitive and could be used as auxillary tests of prenosological diagnosis of pathology of chemical etiology.