Riding-school lung? Allergic alveolitis in an 11-year-old girl.
Farmer's lung is a rural disease, caused by inhalation of airborne moulds and actinomycetes in the environment (farms). We describe to our knowledge the first case of farmer's lung in an 11-year-old girl briefly exposed to Thermophilic actinomycetes at a riding-school.
Kristiansen
J D
JD
Department of Paediatrics, Herning Central Hospital, Denmark.
Lahoz
A X
AX
D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D005203:Farmer's Lung / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D008848:Micromonosporaceae / Q000302:isolation & purification