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Mushroom worker's lung resulting from indoor cultivation of Pleurotus osteatus (1998)

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.

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Download http://occmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/48/7/465
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/occmed/48.7.465
Publisher Oxford University Press
Repository HighWire Press OAI Repository (United States)
Keywords Case Reports
Type TEXT
Language English