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Threshers Lung

Alveolitis caused by an allergic reaction to fungal spores in the dust that is inhaled from moldy hay.thresher's lung --> Farmer's lung

(Science: chest medicine) type III hypersensitivity response to Micropolyspora faeni, a thermophilic bacterium found in mouldy hay.


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