bagpipers' disease
bagpipers’ disease
Cryptococcal (and presumably other fungal) infection occurring in bagpipers, whose instruments are composed of a sheep skin bladder covered in treacle, which provides an ideal growth medium. Deep inhalation of cryptococcal spores have been anecdotally linked to fatal pneumonia and brain abscesses; the frequency with which this occurs in unknown.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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