The significance of Mycobacterium avium complex cultivation in the sputum of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

Chest

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 142-147

  Epstein, Matthew D ^a   Aranda, Conrado P ^a   Bonk, Stanley ^a,b   Hanna, Bruce ^a,b   Rom, William N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

M. avium; M. tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031020123     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.111.1.142     Document Type: Article

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