Use of adjunctive treatment with interferon-γ in an immunocompromised patient who had refractory multidrug-resistant tuberculosis of the brain

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 572-574

  Raad, Issam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NECK PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0029744248     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.3.572     Document Type: Article

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