Mushroom worker's lung: organic dust exposure in the spawning shed

Two people employed for several years in the spawning shed of a mushroom farm developed mushroom worker's lung. The first patient presented in respiratory failure, with radiological features characteristic of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. The condition of the second patient was subacute on pres...

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Published in:Medical journal of Australia 2007-05, Vol.186 (9), p.472-474
Main Authors: Hoy, Ryan F, J Pretto, Jeffrey, Gelderen, David, McDonald, Christine F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Agaricus
Agricultural Workers' Diseases - diagnosis
Allergens
Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic - diagnosis
Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic - etiology
Antigens
Biological and medical sciences
Chemical and industrial products toxicology. Toxic occupational diseases
Dust
Dyspnea
Farmworkers
Fever
General aspects
Humans
Inorganic dusts (pneumoconiosises) and organic dusts (byssinosis etc.)
Lung - diagnostic imaging
Male
Medical sciences
Mushrooms
Occupational Exposure - adverse effects
Occupational health
Patients
Proteins
Respiratory diseases
Respiratory tract diseases
Steroids
Tomography
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Toxicology
Workers
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Summary:Two people employed for several years in the spawning shed of a mushroom farm developed mushroom worker's lung. The first patient presented in respiratory failure, with radiological features characteristic of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. The condition of the second patient was subacute on presentation, with a computed tomography (CT) scan showing ground-glass opacities. With absence from the workplace and no steroid therapy, the symptoms of both patients subsided and the results of lung function tests and CT scans improved markedly.
ISSN:0025-729X
1326-5377
DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01000.x