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Silicosis

Workplace Health & Safety, 2020
Occupational exposures to dust with elevated levels of respirable crystalline silica in artificial stone increase workers’ risk for silicosis.
Kimberly Reynolds, John Jerome
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Distinct metabolic features in the plasma of patients with silicosis and dust-exposed workers in China: a case–control study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021
Background Silicosis is a progressive pneumoconiosis characterized by interstitial fibrosis following exposure to silica dust. The role of metabolic dysregulation in the pathogenesis of silicosis has not been investigated in detail.
Changjiang Xue, Na Wu, Yali Fan, Jing Ma, Qiao Ye   +4 more
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Integrating RNA-Seq With GWAS Reveals a Novel SNP in Immune-Related HLA-DQB1 Gene Associated With Occupational Pulmonary Fibrosis Risk: A Multi-Stage Study

Frontiers in Immunology, 2022
ObjectiveTo evaluate the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in RNA-seq identified mRNAs and silicosis susceptibility.MethodsA comprehensive RNA-seq was performed to screen for differently expressed mRNAs in the peripheral blood ...
Yan Zhou, Yingyi Zhang, Rui Zhao, Zhounan Cheng, Minzhu Tang, Anni Qiu, Yang Dong, Yihua Lu, Yulong Lian, Xun Zhuang, Tian Tian, Wei Wang, Minjie Chu   +12 more
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Silicosis, progressive massive fibrosis and silico-tuberculosis among workers with occupational exposure to silica dusts in sandstone mines of Rajasthan state: An urgent need for initiating national silicosis control programme in India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021
Context: Silicosis is a progressive, irreversible and incurable respiratory morbidity and often becomes a cause for pre-mature mortality among occupationally silica dust-exposed workers in India and similar countries.
Subroto S Nandi, Sarang V Dhatrak, Kamalesh Sarkar   +2 more
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Review on role of NLRP3 inflammasome in pathogenesis of silicosis

环境与职业医学, 2022
Silicosis is one of the most common forms of pneumoconiosis globally. Workers who engage in mining, construction, ceramics, and many other industries have a high risk of developing silicosis. Chronic and repeated inhalation of free silica (SiO2) dust (
Zhenzhen FAN, Yehong ZHAO, Bing LI, Yang LIU, Junyu JIANG, Min MU, Xinrong TAO   +6 more
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Social determinants of an occupational lung disease: Workers’ narratives on silicosis

SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2023
Silicosis is a preventable occupational lung disease caused by inhaled silica dust. Solutions to prevent silicosis ranging from engineering controls to respirator use have been validated for nearly a century, but many workers are still at-risk of this ...
Yanni Liang, Katherine E. McCoy, Carrie D. Tomasallo, Jonathan G. Meiman   +3 more
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Asbestosis and silicosis [PDF]

The Lancet, 1997
Interstitial fibrosis resulting from workplace exposure to asbestos and crystalline silica persists throughout the world despite knowledge of the causes and effective means for prevention. Asbestosis and silicosis occurrence is predictable among people overexposed to dusts in various industries and occupations such as mining, construction ...
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Community-Acquired Moraxella catarrhalis Bacteremic Pneumonia: Two Case Reports and Review of the Literature

Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2016
Moraxella (formerly Branhamella) catarrhalis was discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, and for many decades it was considered to be a harmless commensal of the upper respiratory tract.
Miguel Angel Ariza-Prota, Ana Pando-Sandoval, Marta García-Clemente, David Fole-Vázquez, Pere Casan   +4 more
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Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Empyema Caused by Citrobacter koseri in an Immunocompetent Patient

Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2015
Citrobacter species, belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae, are environmental organisms commonly found in soil, water, and the intestinal tracts of animals and humans.
Miguel Angel Ariza-Prota, Ana Pando-Sandoval, Marta García-Clemente, Ramón Fernández, Pere Casan   +4 more
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Silicosis as a predictor of tuberculosis mortality and treatment failure and need for incorporation in differentiated TB care models in India

Archives of Public Health, 2023
Background Differentiated tuberculosis (TB) care is an approach to improve treatment outcomes by tailoring TB management to the particular needs of patient groups based on their risk profile and comorbidities. In silicosis-prone areas, the coexistence of
Mihir P. Rupani
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