Farmer's lung after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.
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Thorax 1986;41:68-69 Farmer's lung after Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection
Farmer's lung is a hypersensitivity reaction to fungal spores in mouldy hay, most commonly Micropolyspora faeni. The type of immunological reaction is debated' but a high dose ofantigen is necessary and the inflammation may result from activation of the alternative pathway of complement, linked to a type 3 response. Detection of serum precipitins to fungal antigens is used as a diagnostic aid b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.41.1.68