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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

PEPYS, Jacob (1914 – 1996)

1914 – 1996

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1963

#3215.6

Farmer’s lung. Thermophilic actinomycetes as a source of “farmer’s lung hay” antigen.

PEPYS, Jacob (1914 – 1996)

Pepys and five co-authors showed that thermophilic actinomycetes, especially Micropolyspora faeni, were the cause of farmer’s lung due to mouldy hay.