Environmental source | Major causative antigen |
Laboratory worker's lung (rats, gerbils) | Urine, serum, pelts, proteins |
Pituitary snuff taker's disease | Dried, powdered neurohypophysis (bovine and porcine pituitary proteins) |
Furrier's lung (sewing furs; animal fur dust) | Animal pelts |
Bat lung (bat droppings) | Bat serum protein |
Fish meal worker's lung | Fish meal |
Coptic lung (mummy handler's lung) | Cloth wrappings of mummies |
Mollusc shell HP | Sea-snail shell |
Pearl oyster shell pneumonitis | Oyster shells |
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