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Journal Article 
Thermophilic actinomycetes in cane sugar mills: An aeromicrobiologic and seroepidemiologic study 
Khan, ZU; Gangway, M; Gaur, SN; Randhawa, HS 
1995 
Yes 
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
ISSN: 0003-6072
EISSN: 1572-9699 
BIOSIS/95/26595 
67 
4 
339-344 
eng 
BIOSIS COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. Aerial prevalence of clinically important thermophilic actinomycetes and occurrence of precipitating antibodies against them in sera of 153 exposed workers have been reported. The study was carried out in two cane sugar mills namely, the Upper Doab Sugar Mills and the Ramala Sugar Mills, located in north-west India. In both the sugar mills, T. sacchari was the predominant species, it accounted for 55.1% and 50.3% of the total population of thermophilic actinomycetes, followed by T. vulgaris (19.7% and 23.7%), T. thalpophilus (211.1% and 17.1%), Saccharomonospora viridis (3.4% and 5.0%) and Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula (Faenia rectivirgula) (0.7% and 3.9%), respectively. Precipitating antibodies against thermophilic actinomycetes were demonstrable in 34 (22.2%) workers; T. sacchari alone accounted for 20 of the positive precipitin reactions, followed by S. rectivirgula in 10. The mean absorbance values for IgG antibody activity against T. sacchari as well as S. rectiv