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Riding‐School Lung?: Allergic Alveolitis in an 11‐Year‐Old Girl
Author(s) -
KRISTIANSEN J. D.,
LAHOZ A. X.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1991.tb11868.x
Subject(s) - girl , medicine , farmer's lung , lung disease , lung , inhalation , extrinsic allergic alveolitis , pediatrics , respiratory disease , environmental health , anesthesia , psychology , developmental psychology
. 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 long in an 11‐year‐old girl briefly exposed to Thermophilic actinomycetes at a riding‐school.