title: [Filamentous fungi and mycotoxins as potential occupational risk factors among farmers harvesting various crops].
abstract: The studies to determine the level of filamentous fungi and mycotoxins were carried out in samples of grain and grain dust during threshing of cereals by a combine harvester. High concentration of fungi was noted in grain and grain dust samples, it ranged from 5.0 to 520.0 cfu/g.10(3) and from 275.0 to 2825.0 cfu/g.10(3), respectively Allergizing and toxigenic fungi of Alternaria, Geotrichum, Cladosporium, Penicillium, Aspergillus and Fusarium species were observed in the study samples of grain and grain dust. In the samples of wheat grain, mycotoxins were also noted: moniliformin (MON), deoxynivalenol (DON) and ochratoxin A (OTA); their concentrations ranged from 0.025 to 0.088 microgram/g; 0.015-0.068 microgram/g; and from 0.0004 to 0.0008 microgram/g, respectively. The level of mycotoxins in the grain dust samples was within the range of 0.025-0.149 microgram/g-MON; 0.015-0.215 microgram/g-DON; 0.015-0.360 microgram/g-NIV; and 0.0004-0.0012 microgram/g-OTA. A significant correlation was observed between the occurrence of fungi of Fusarium species and the concentration of pathologic mycotoxins. The results confirm a considerable occupational risk among farmers engaged in grain threshing due to inhalation of pathogenic species of filamentous fungi and mycotoxins.
authors.affiliation: Zakładu Biologicznych Szkodliwości Zawodowych, Instytutu Medycyny Wsi w Lublinie.
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krysińska-Traczyk
authors.forename: Juliusz
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Perkowski
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kostecki
authors.forename: Jacek
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dutkiewicz
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kiecana
mesh_terms: D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D000391:Air Microbiology; D000528:Alternaria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001230:Aspergillus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002963:Cladosporium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015169:Colony Count, Microbial; D003503:Cyclobutanes / Q000032:analysis; D004391:Dust / Q000032:analysis; D002523:Edible Grain; D005506:Food Contamination; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005658:Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005670:Fusarium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005848:Geotrichum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D019570:Inhalation Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D009181:Mycoses / Q000382:microbiology*; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000032:analysis*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D009793:Ochratoxins / Q000032:analysis; D010407:Penicillium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011044:Poland; D012307:Risk Factors; D014255:Trichothecenes / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D003503:Cyclobutanes; D004391:Dust; D009183:Mycotoxins; D009793:Ochratoxins; D014255:Trichothecenes; C008539:moniliformin; C007262:deoxynivalenol