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- Title
Mushroom worker's lung resulting from indoor cultivation of Pleurotus osteatus.
- Authors
Mori, S.; Nakagawa-Yoshida, K.; Tsuchihashi, H.; Koreeda, Y.; Kawabata, M.; Nishiura, Y.; Ando, M.; Osame, M.
- Abstract
Indoor cultivation of oyster mushroom Pleurotus osteatus lead to an outbreak of extrinsic allergic alveolitis in two workers. High titer of indirect fluorescent antibody and positive precipitins against basidiospores of P. osteatus were demonstrated in sera of the patients. Mushroom workers should protect themselves from the basidiospores, being aware of their pathogenicity.
- Subjects
PLEUROTUS ostreatus; OCCUPATIONAL diseases; HYPERSENSITIVITY pneumonitis; FLUORESCENT antibody technique; PRECIPITIN tests; BASIDIOSPORES; MUSHROOM industry
- Publication
Occupational Medicine, 1998, Vol 48, Issue 7, p465
- ISSN
0962-7480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/occmed/48.7.465