Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacteriosis caused by mycobacterium kansasii in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 323-326

  Komeno, Takuya ^a   Itoh, Takayoshi ^a   Ohtani, Kouji ^a   Kamoshita, Masaharu ^a   Hasegawa, Yuichi ^a   Hori, Mitsuo ^a   Kobayashi, Toshitaka ^a   Nagasawa, Toshiro ^a   Abe, Tsukasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacteriosis; Granuloma; Leukemoid reaction; Lymphadenopathy; Opportunistic infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030124145     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.35.323     Document Type: Article

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