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humidifier lung disease
A form of hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Etiology:
-> contamination of water by thermophilic actinomycetes
General
hypersensitivity pneumonitis; extrinsic allergic alveolitis; pigeon breeder's lung; bird fancier's lung; farmer's lung; allergic pneumonitis
References
Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American
College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998