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.
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D005203
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C08.381.483.125.365 C08.674.055.365 C20.543.480.680.075.365 C24.080.365
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Simonian PL, Roark CL, Wehrmann F, Lanham AK, Diaz del Valle F, Born WK, O'Brien RL, Fontenot AP. Th17-polarized immune response in a murine model of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and lung fibrosis. J Immunol. 2009 Jan 01; 182(1):657-65.
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Bunn PA, Wilson JR. Farmer's lung. Introduction. Identification study. N Y State J Med. 1965 Dec 15; 65(24):3013-5.
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