Hypersensitivity pneumonitis-like granulomatous lung disease with nontuberculous mycobacteria from exposure to hot water aerosols

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 262-266

  Sood, Akshay ^a   Sreedhar, Rajgopal ^b   Kulkarni, Pradeep ^c   Nawoor, Abdur Ray ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Central Illinois Allergy and Respiratory Services Ltd   (United States)

^d Physicians Group Associates SC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Granulomatous lung disease; Hot tub; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Mycobacterium avium complex; Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; HOT WATER; LEVOFLOXACIN; RIFABUTIN;

ABSTINENCE; ADULT; AEROSOL; AIR CONDITIONING; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG LAVAGE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDLINE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SMOKING; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT DURATION; UNITED STATES;

AEROSOLS; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEAT; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;

EID: 33847049836     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9542     Document Type: Article

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