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[Respiratory organ morbidity in workers in the mining industry]
Abstract:
Morbidity involving temporary unfitness for work in underground miners is marked by a great specific weight among them of disorders of the respiratory system. In the structure of the above disorders acute viral-and-bacterial infections of the respiratory organs predominate and determine the increment of chronic unspecific lung diseases in miners as well as high rates of occupational pathology of the respiratory organs.
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