CA70.0
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Farmer lung
Definition
Farmer's lung disease is a hypersensitivity pneumonitis, caused by inhalation of organic dust containing spores of microorganisms, often thermophilic actinomycetes and less commonly Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula, living in mouldy hay, straw, or grain. Typical symptoms include dyspnoea, cough, tiredness, headaches and occasional fever/night sweats, with acute, sub-acute or chronic clinical course and can result in chronic disability with granulomatous disease.
Also indexed as
Farmer lungfarmers' lungfarmers' lung diseasefibrosis of lung with farmers' lungharvester lungharvesters' hypersensitivity pneumonitishaymaker lunghaymakers' hypersensitivity pneumonitismoldy hay disordermoldy hay pneumoconiosismouldy hay diseasethreshers' lung