Occupational Asthma Reference
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Mori S, NakagawaYoshida K, Tsuchihashi H, Koreeda Y, Kawabata M, Nishiura Y, Ando M, Osame M,
Mushroom worker's lung resulting from indoor cultivation of Pleurotus osteatus,
Occup Med,
1998;48:465-468,
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Keywords: Japan, mushroom, oyster mushroom, alveolitis, antibody, IgG
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Abstract
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kagoshima University School of Medicine, Japan 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
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