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Universitas Medica
Print version ISSN 0041-9095On-line version ISSN 2011-0839
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.