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Seorang Penderita Siliko Tuberkulosis dengan Penyulit Pneumotoraks [Pneumothorax in a Silico-Tuberculosis Patient: A Case Report]

Jurnal Respirasi, 2016
Background: Silicosis is a lung disease caused by the work because of respirable crystalline silica. Often occurs in workers mining gold, iron, tin, granite, sandstone, slate, foundries, cement, ceramics and glass. The risk of silicosis develop into lung
Winariani Koesoemoprodjo, Vinodini Merinda   +1 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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Silicotuberculosis with Suspected Distal Renal Tubular Dysfunction and Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus: A Case with an Unusual Association [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Silicosis is a chronic occupational lung disease associated with an increased susceptibility to tuberculosis. However, renal manifestations in the context of silica exposure are uncommon and remain incompletely understood.
Surya Pradha Muthu, M Rajkumar
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Sterile Lung Inflammation Induced by Silica Exacerbates Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection via STING-Dependent Type 2 Immunity

Cell Reports, 2019
Summary: Lung inflammation induced by silica impairs host control of tuberculosis, yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we show that silica-driven exacerbation of M. tuberculosis infection associates with raised type 2 immunity.
Sulayman Benmerzoug, Badreddine Bounab, Stéphanie Rose, David Gosset, Franck Biet, Thierry Cochard, Aurore Xavier, Nathalie Rouxel, Louis Fauconnier, William G.C. Horsnell, Bernhard Ryffel, Dieudonnee Togbe, Valerie F.J. Quesniaux   +12 more
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Expression of Low Molecular Mass Proteins in Stone Quarry Workers [PDF]

National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2013
Background: In India, there are many unauthorized stone quarries in which millions of workers exposed to crystalline silica dust. Silica dust is the most significant causative agent for the irreversible but preventable disease like silicosis.
Lucky R. Thakkar, Shubhangi K. Pingle, Rajani G. Tumane, Pravin N. Soni   +3 more
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The double trouble monster – Unmasking hidden tuberculosis in silicosis patients: A case series

Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of Tamil Nadu
Tuberculosis occurs commonly in silicosis and is difficult to diagnose. We are presenting four cases of silicotuberculosis. The first three cases of silicotuberculosis have occupational risk factors such as borewell driller, construction sites, and ...
S Gowri Shankar, D Suresh Kumar
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Silicosis and silicotuberculosis of quarriers in the region of Popina and Dublje [PDF]

, 1952
Prikazan je problem silikoze i siliko-tuberkuloze kamenorezaca u selima Popina i Dublje (trstenički srez NR Srbije). Opisani su geomorfološki i mineraloški podaci, na osnovu kojih se može zaključiti, da u našoj zemlji ima velikih područja, gdje se u ...
Stojadinović, Milutin
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Silico-tuberculosis, silicosis and other respiratory morbidities among sandstone mine workers in Rajasthan- a cross-sectional study.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Exposures to respirable crystalline silica causes silicosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, autoimmune disorders and chronic renal disease.
Saranya Rajavel, Pankaja Raghav, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Venkiteswaran Muralidhar   +3 more
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A research study on morbidity including silicotuberculosis among the mine workers of Rajasthan

Journal of Integrated Health Sciences, 2013
Background: Stone mines of Western Rajasthan are famous worldwide for its sandstone and white marble. In the drought-stricken state of Rajasthan (in particular in its Western part) mining provides essential support to livelihood generation to more than 2
Prakash Tyagi, Rajesh Mehta
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(THE) IMMUNOLOGICAL STUDY OF SILICOTUBERCULOSIS WITH MEASUREMENT OF SERUM ELECTROPHORESIS AND IMMUNOGLOBULIN

, 1984
The silicosis is an occupational lung disease that occurred mainly in the coal miner due to inhalation of silica dust. Many opinions of the pathogenesis of the silicosis were proposed, but in recent, immunological aspect was considered. In order to study
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