Catalog
Pneumoconiosis associated with tuberculosis
Link to WHO Definition
Pneumoconiosis associated with tuberculosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/852375268
This is an occupational lung disease and a restrictive lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust, often in mines, associated with a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis.