Abstract

VILLADIEGO CORTINA, Alejandra Melisa  and  PARDO RUBIO, Ernesto. Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum in a Patient with Pneumoconiosis: Report of a Case in Primary Care. Univ. Med. [online]. 2018, vol.59, n.4, pp.103-107. ISSN 0041-9095.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.umed59-4.myco.

Pneumoconiosis is a chronic lung disease, caused by the inhalation of toxins that produces lung tissue damage; one type of pneumoconiosis is silicoanthracosis. In this reported case, we described an immunocompetent patient that has a pulmonary infection by Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum at a primary care center in Bogotá, Colombia; being an unusual case.

Keywords : Mycobacterium nontuberculous; pneumoconiosis; primary health care.

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