- farmer's lung disease of cattle
- a disease in cattle similar to farmer's lung in humans, caused by hypersensitivity to moldy hay contaminated by Saccharopolyspora rectivirgula or Thermoactinomyces vulgaris.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
farmer's lung disease of cattle
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