Hypersensitivity pneumonitis induced by spores of Penicillium citrinum in a worker cultivating Enoki mushroom

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 537-541

  Yoshikawa, Sumiko ^a   Tsushima, Kenji ^a   Koizumi, Tomonobu ^a   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Kumagai, Toshiko ^a   Yamazaki, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enoki mushroom; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Mushroom worker's lung; Penicillium citrinum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CD4 CD8 RATIO; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INDUSTRY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNGUS SPORE; GIANT CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JAPAN; LUNG ALVEOLITIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MUSHROOM; PENICILLIUM CITRINUM; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGARICALES; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIUM; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 33646813331     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1646     Document Type: Article

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