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 |