Cutaneous and pulmonary infections caused by Mycobacterium vaccae

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 173-175

  Hachem, Ray ^b   Raad, Issam ^a   Rolston, Kenneth V I ^b   Whimbey, Estella ^b   Katz, Ruth ^b   Tarrand, Jeffrey ^b   Libshitz, Herman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOXITIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM VACCAE; NOTE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029830108     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.1.173     Document Type: Note

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