Recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis due to Mycobacterium avium complex

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1194-1195

  Kourtis, Athena P ^a,b   Ibegbu, Christian C ^b   Snitzer, Joseph A ^b   Nesheim, Steven R ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; RIFAMPICIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHILIC GASTROENTERITIS; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; TUBERCULOUS OSTEOMYELITIS;

EID: 0029861161     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.1194     Document Type: Article

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