Environmental source | Major causative antigen |
Wood dust pneumonitis (oak, cedar, and mahogany dust, pine and spruce pulp) | Alternaria sp |
Bacillus subtilis | |
Sequoiosis (moldy wood dust) | Graphium |
Pullularia | |
Trichoderma sp. | |
Aureobasidium pullulans | |
Maple bark disease (moldy maple bark) | Cryptostroma corticale |
Wood trimmer's disease (contaminated wood trimmings) | Rhizopus sp, Mucor sp |
Wood pulp worker's disease (oak and maple trees) | Penicillium sp |
Suberosis (moldy cork dust) | T. viridis |
Penicillium glabrum | |
Conidia | |
Composter's lung | T. vulgaris |
Aspergillus | |
Dry rot lung | Merulius lacrymans |
Thatched-roof lung (huts in New Guinea) | Saccharomonospora viridis (dead grasses and leaves) |
Esparto dust ("Stipatosis"; Stipa tesnacissima is a grass of the graminea family) | Aspergillus fumigatus |
T. actinomycetes |
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