Disease name |
Fungus implicated |
Process |
Farmer's lung |
Penicillium brevicompactum/ olivicolor* |
Turning or storing damp hay, opening bales for feeding livestock threshing mouldy grain |
Mushroom worker's lung |
Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus osteatus, Lentinus edodes |
Exposure in spawning sheds |
Malt worker's lung |
Aspergillus clavatus |
Handling grain |
Suberosis |
Penicillium glabrum (previously known as frequentans) |
Storage of hot damp cork |
Maple bark stripper's lung |
Cryptospora corticale |
Stripping bark from logs |
Sequoiosis |
Aureobasidium pullulans |
Damp saw mill dust |
Wood pulp worker's lung |
Alternaria species |
Pulping contaminated wood |
Wine grower's lung |
Botrytis cinerea |
Mould contamination |
Cheese worker's lung |
Penicillium casei/roqueforte |
Cleaning mould off cheese |
Tobacco worker's lung |
Aspergillus fumigatus |
Handling contaminated tobacco |
Summer-type HP |
Trichosporon cutaneum |
Exposure to damp wood and mats |
Peak moss worker's lung |
Penicillium citreonigrum |
Peat moss processing workers |
Paprika slicer's lung |
Mucor stolonifer |
Paprika slicers |
Humidifier lung |
Rhodotorula |
Humidifiers |
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Penicillium verrucosum, camemberti |
Food processors |