Hypersensitivity pneumonitis among workers cultivating Tricholoma conglobatum (shimeji)

Respiration

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 273-278

  Akizuki, Norikazu ^a,b   Inase, Naohiko ^b   Ishiwata, Nobuo ^a   Jin, Yasuto ^a   Atarashi, Kenichi ^a   Ichioka, Masahiko ^b   Yoshizawa, Yasuyuki ^b   Marumo, Fumiaki ^b  

^a Hokushin General Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alveolitis, extrinsic allergic; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Immunodiffusion test, double; Shimeji; Tricholoma conglobatum

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNODIFFUSION; JAPAN; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; MUSHROOM; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; SPUTUM; TRICHOLOMA CONGLOBATUM;

ADULT; AGARICALES; AGRICULTURE; BIOPSY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNODIFFUSION; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032972533     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000029373     Document Type: Article

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