Mushroom worker's lung resulting from indoor cultivation of Pleurotus osteatus

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 465-468

  Mori, S ^a,c   Nakagawa Yoshida, K ^b   Tsuchihashi, H ^a   Koreeda, Y ^a   Kawabata, M ^a   Nishiura, Y ^b   Ando, M ^b   Osame, M ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basidiospore; Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Indirect fluorescent antibody; Mushroom worker's lung; Pleurotus osteatus

Indexed keywords

PRECIPITIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MUSHROOM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031674513     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/48.7.465     Document Type: Article

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