Mycobacterium avium complex sputum isolates from patients with respiratory symptoms in Guinea-Bissau

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 263-265

  Koivula, Tuija ^b   Hoffner, Sven ^b   Winqvist, Niclas ^b   Nauclér, Anders ^b   Dias, Francisco ^b   Lacerda, Lidia ^b   Svenson, Stefan ^b   Norberg, Renée ^b   Källenius, Gunilla ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030066444     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/173.1.263     Document Type: Article

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