Mycobacterium chelonae infection mimicking cutaneous vasculitis: Case report

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1189-1191

  Sran, Pushpa K ^a,b   Kansupada, Kashyap ^b   Whitcup, Scott M ^b  

^a Building 10 ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ASCORBIC ACID; CALCIUM; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; PREDNISONE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOROIDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; PANNICULITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; VASCULITIS;

EID: 0029861728     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.1189     Document Type: Article

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