Mushroom workers' lung

An extrinsic allergic alveolitis involving inflammation of the alveoli within the lung caused by hypersensitivity to the inhalation of organic dust particles derived from either the mushrooms, their spores or the compost in which the mushrooms are grown. It is usually caused by the spores of thermophilic actinomycetes.

Also known as: mushroom workers lung, bunashimeji worker's lung, pholiota worker's lung, pleurotus worker's lung, shiitaki worker's lung, shimeji worker's lung

76 clinical trials for this condition and its sub-types, 0 tagged with Mushroom workers' lung itself.