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Deadly dust: Silicotuberculosis as a downplayed and overlooked fatal disease in Indonesia [PDF]

Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 2022
Isnin Anang Marhana, Yovita Citra Eka Dewi Djatioetomo   +1 more
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Silent epidemic of silicotuberculosis in India and emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis?

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Objectives: India's projected silica-dust-exposed workers will be 52 million at the end of 2025. The elimination of tuberculosis (TB) is also targeted in India by 2025. Scientists in India have already pointed out that unless silicosis is controlled, the
Kamalesh Sarkar, Bidisa Sarkar, Dharmendra Singh   +2 more
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Mini-review: Silico-tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2021
Silicosis continues to be a serious health issue in many countries and its elimination by 2030 (a target set by WHO and the International Labour Organization in 1995) is virtually impossible.
Massimiliano Lanzafame, Sandro Vento
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Difficulties in distinguishing silicosis and pulmonary tuberculosis in silica‐exposed gold miners: A report of four cases

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 339-348, April 2023., 2023
Abstract Silicosis and tuberculosis (TB) are both global health concerns, with high prevalence among miners from the South African gold mines. Although knowledge has accumulated about these two conditions as distinct diseases since the early 20th century, and despite progress in technology with multiple diagnostic tools and treatment options available ...
Botembetume Maboso, Jim te Water Naude, David Rees, Hillel Goodman, Rodney Ehrlich   +4 more
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Establishment of rat model of silicotuberculosis and its pathological characteristic [PDF]

Pathogens and Global Health, 2014
Jing Wu, Hu Dong, Yingru Xing
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Prevalence of concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with newly diagnosed silicosis in a tertiary care center in South India

Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023
Background: Long-term exposure to silica dust makes people prone for silicosis which raises the risk of the individual in developing pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB). Silicosis is a progressive lung disease characterize with shortness of breath, cough, fever,
Navaneethakrishnan Muthulakshmi , Saravanavasan Rajendran , Kannan Muthuraman Alagappan   +2 more
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Silicotuberculosis among Miners: A Scoping Review [PDF]

, 2021
Hassan Dhaini; Mey Jurdi; Umayya MusharrafiehBackground: Silicotuberculosis is both a Public Health and Occupational Health problem within the twenty-first century.
Mukonyo, Elizabeth Koka
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Rare Complications of Silica Dust Exposure

Erciyes Medical Journal, 2019
Crystalline silica inhalation causes silicosis, one of the ancient occupational lung diseases. It leads to an irreversible fibrotic response in the lung parenchyma and, consequently, causes diffuse interstitial lung disease.
Alaa Omar Shalaby, Khaled Mahmoud Kamel, Ahmed Serag Aldein Al Halfawy, Hassan Mahmoud Amin, Sabah Ahmed Hussein, Hassan Gamal Yamamah, Hoda Mohamed Abdel-hamid   +6 more
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Silicotuberculosis in the presser of refractory products in modern working conditions [PDF]

, 2022
The aim of the study – to study and describe the case of silicotuberculosis in a presser of refractory products in modern working conditions.Цель исследования – изучение и описание случая силикотуберкулеза у прессовщика огнеупорных изделий в современных
Гоголева, О. И., Vavilina, D. N., Kashanskaya, E. P., Вавилина, Д. Н., Кашанская, Е. П., Тамендарова, В. А., Tamendarova, V. A., Gogoleva, O. I.   +7 more
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Reducing agate dust exposure in Khambhat, India: Protective practices, barriers, and opportunities

Journal of Occupational Health, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 442-452, November 2019., 2019
Abstract Aims Agate workers in Khambhat, India and their community members are exposed to high levels of silica dust and related diseases. Use of effective prevention practices remains low, prompting the need for effective interventions which increase the uptake of and investment in prevention practices.
Lindsey Falk, Paul Bozek, Lissa Ceolin, Marianne Levitsky, Om Malik, Jagdish Patel, Mercedes Sobers, Donald C. Cole   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source