[Detection of antigens containing benzidine groups in the blood of persons having contact with aniline dyes]

The paper is concerned with the study of a possibility to record 2-naphtylamine and benzidine in serum and formed blood elements of workers being in contact with dyes, which molecule contain radicals of carcinogens. The Ouchterlony method of precipitation in gel in micromodification and the method of a delay in the precipitation reaction have indicated the presence of benzidine as a haptene in blood serum of 25 among 103 workers and in blood clot extracts in 42 among 116 workers from a textile factory under examination. But 2-naphtylamine was not found in the same subjects.