[Algae as the cause of irritation cough].
Cases of irritation-cough in personnel and patients of a physiotherapeutical department during treatment by under-water massage were found out as to be due to mass vegetation of a population of Staurastrum gracile Ralfs 1848 in the raw water a no-contaminated surface water. Algae passed the filter element. Outbreak of such an illness in man caused by green algae were unknown hitherto.
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Forschungsinstitut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie Bad Elster, DDR.
D000460:Chlorophyta; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D014871:Water Microbiology
Algen als Ursache von Reizhusten.