Pulmonary Infection due to Mycobacterium gordonae in an Adolescent Immunocompetent Patient

Respiration

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 300-303

  Resch, B ^a   Eber, E ^b   Beitzke, A ^c   Bauer, C ^d   Zach, M ^b  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Kinder und Jugendheilkunde Graz   (Austria)

^b Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology ^*  (Austria)

^c MedizinischeUniversita Graz   (Austria)

^d Federal Institute for Bacteriology and Serology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Clarithromycin; Mycobacterium gordonae; Pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MUSTARD OPERATION; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0030923769     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196691     Document Type: Article

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