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farmer's lung

Broader Terms:

allergic pneumonitis

Broader Terms:

occupational disease /disorder

Scope Note:

systemic and pulmonary reactions resulting from inhalation of dust from moldy hay, threshing dust, or moldy straw, by persons who have become hypersensitive to antigens in the dust; most often associated with inhalation of spores of Micromonospora faeni or Thermoactinomyces vulgaris.

Term Number:

2596-7071


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