Infection with Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare with abscess, ulceration and fistula formation

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-123

  Hide, M ^a,b   Hondo, T ^a   Yonehara, S ^a   Motohiro, Y ^a   Okano, S ^a  

^a Onomichi General Hospital   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINOCYCLINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN ULCER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031030196     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1997.tb08761.x     Document Type: Article

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