Hypersensitivity alveolitis.
Hypersensitivity alveolitis developed in an 11-year-old girl during heavy exposure to mold spores contaminating the straw filters of an evaporation-type home air cooler. It is likely that the causative organism was Micropolyspora faeni, the mold responsible for farmer's lung.
D000389:Air Conditioning / Q000295:instrumentation; D000391:Air Microbiology; D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008848:Micromonosporaceae; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D013171:Spores, Bacterial
D011241:Prednisone