hordeum distichon/fever

OBJECTIVE There are only two previous reports of wild barley inhalation into the tracheobronchial tree in the literature. Our aim is to describe the effects, outcome and management of wild barely inhalation into the airways. METHODS In a retrospective study, 18 patients with inhalation of spike of

A 12-year-old boy was admitted to hospital for abdominal pain, vomiting and fever. On physical examination he had râles on the lower right hemithorax without any respiratory complaints. Chest X-ray revealed a condensation in the right lower chest. Abdominal findings were secondary to lobar

A 16-month-old boy developed a cutaneous swelling at the base of the right hemithorax with fever. The chest film showed evidence of a very slight pleural effusion and the xerography disclosed subcutaneous emphysema opposite the swelling. Three weeks earlier, the child had been found in a field with

An outbreak of ergot, caused by Claviceps purpurea, occurred in barley (Hordeum vulgare) grown in northeastern Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin in 1996. In a nine-county area of intensive dairy production in Iowa, approximately 40% of the barley hectarage (approximately 1,200 ha) was affected by the