Farmer's Lung
"Farmer's Lung" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A form of alveolitis or pneumonitis due to an acquired hypersensitivity to inhaled antigens associated with farm environment. Antigens in the farm dust are commonly from bacteria actinomycetes (SACCHAROPOLYSPORA and THERMOACTINOMYCES), fungi, and animal proteins in the soil, straw, crops, pelts, serum, and excreta.
| Descriptor ID |
D005203
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.381.483.125.365 C08.674.055.365 C20.543.480.680.075.365 C24.080.365
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