Mycobacterium xenopi: Innocent bystander or emerging pathogen?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 226-234

  Jiva, Tajuddin M ^d   Jacoby, Helen M ^a   Weymouth, Lisa A ^b   Kaminski, Dorothy A ^c   Portmore, Amy C ^c  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c St Mary's Hospital ^*

^d UNITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0031049746     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.2.226     Document Type: Article

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