TOXICOLOGY: Disease: Farmer’s lung, mushroom worker’s lung,
penguin humidifier lung

Acute Effect: Bronchoconstriction, cough, chest
tightness

Chronic Effect: Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)

Question

Disease: Farmer’s lung, mushroom worker’s lung,
penguin humidifier lung

Acute Effect: Bronchoconstriction, cough, chest
tightness

Chronic Effect: Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)

LEIGHTON DWIGHT OBILLOS · Accepted Answer

Thermophilic actinomycete

Disease: Farmer’s lung, mushroom worker’s lung, penguin humidifier lung Acute Effect: Bronchoconstriction, cough, chest tightness Chronic Effect: Extrinsic allergic alveolitis (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)