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.
Also indexed as
Colliers' tuberculosisGrinders' tuberculosisPneumoconiosis associated with tuberculosisPotters' tuberculosisSandblasters' tuberculosisSilicosis with tuberculosisStonemasons' tuberculosispneumoconiosis with tuberculosissilicotuberculosistuberculous pneumoconiosis