Table 1.

Suspected organic and inorganic triggers of sarcoidosis development [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51].

Biological Triggers	Non Biological Triggers
Bacteria (M. tuberculosis, Nontuberculous Mycobacterium, P. acnes) Fungi Viruses (human herpes viruses HHV6 and HHV8, retrovirus, cytomegalovirus, Coxsackie virus, rubella virus, adenovirus, SARS-CoV-2, etc.) Vaccines (tuberculosis, flu, cancer)	Organic compounds (pine pollen, clay, silicon, etc.) Metal dust (aluminum, zirconium, barium, cobalt, copper, titanium, gold, etc.) Other inorganic compounds (talc, photocopy toner powder, fiberglass, etc.)