There is also a fuller account in the literature of contact dermatitis being
associated with handling of Nereis:
PROTEIN CONTACT-DERMATITIS CAUSED BY NEREIS DIVERSICOLOR
DAMBROSIO FP, LEVANTI C, CILIA M, RICCIARDI L, ISOLA S
ALLERGY 50 (10): 830-832 OCT 1995
I get it if I have too much direct contact with my worms.
Alastair
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Alastair Grant
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4
7TJ, UK Web page http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e130 Phone 01603 592 537
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From: owner-annelida at net.bio.net [mailto:owner-annelida at net.bio.net]On
Behalf Of Geoff Read
Sent: 14 November 2001 21:29
To: annelida at net.bio.net
Subject: Wheezy? It's the worms!
.... or rather more likely the formaldehyde gases in your lab! But ....
Esteban, A., J. Fernandez, & V. Soriano. 2001. Rhinitis and asthma
caused by sea worm bait. — Allergy (Copenhagen) 56 (Supplement
68):196.
Meeting abstract, content unknown, except the patient was an adolescent
female and the bait a Glycera sp.
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