Respiratory Disease in a Mushroom Worker
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- Vol. 23 (1) , 49-51
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00043764-198101000-00019
Abstract
Allergic alveolitis demonstrated by lung biopsy was described in a mushroom worker in Washington [USA] with severe airway obstruction. This was the 1st case of mushroom worker''s lung reported in USA outside the mushroom industry in Pennsylvania [USA]. The processes of commercial mushroom growing were discussed and literature on mushroom worker''s lung was reviewed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: