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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease tuberculosis
Phenotype C0037116|silicosis
Sentences 8
PubMedID- 20931041 The diagnosis of active tuberculosis in patient with silicosis demands high degree of clinical suspicion.
PubMedID- 26557395 A 50-year-old hiv-negative white male, previous smoker, with silicosis and a history of treated pulmonary tuberculosis developed a worsening of cough and expectoration pattern, and two sputum samples were positive for acid-fast bacilli.
PubMedID- 21828370 silicosis mortality with respiratory tuberculosis in the united states, 1968-2006.
PubMedID- 26175823 Prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in silicosis is more common when compared to prevalence in general population, hence all should use prophylactic measures intensification of work place.
PubMedID- 25191460 Additionally, risk of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in silicosis patients has reported to be 3.7 times higher than in healthy subjects (10).
PubMedID- 20465964 [clinical analysis of 30 cases of silicosis combined with lung tuberculosis and lung fungal infection].
PubMedID- 21980669 The risk of a patient with silicosis developing tuberculosis is higher (2.8 to 39 fold higher, depending on the severity of silicosis) than that found in healthy controls.
PubMedID- 20514987 The risk of silicosis in workers with pulmonary tuberculosis was 2.57 folds as those without it (p < 0.01).

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