Trends in silicosis prevalence and the healthy worker effect among gold miners in South Africa: a prevalence study with follow up of employment status

BACKGROUND: Given the intimate association between silicosis and tuberculosis, understanding the epidemiology of the South African gold mining industry silicosis epidemic is essential to current initiatives to control both silicosis and tuberculosis in this population, one of the most heavily affect...

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Autores principales: Knight, David, Ehrlich, Rodney, Fielding, Katherine, Jeffery, Hannah, Grant, Alison, Churchyard, Gavin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26686997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2566-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26686997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2566-8

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