Preoperative diagnosis of Mycobacterium avium lymphadenitis in two immunocompetent children by polymerase chain reaction of gastric aspirates

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1016-1020

  Haas, Walter H ^a,b   Amthor, Beate ^a   Engelmann, Guido ^a   Rimek, Dagmar ^b   Bremer, Hans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

IS1245; Mycobacterial lymphadenitis; Mycobacterium avium; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH SUCTION;

EID: 0031768603     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006454-199811000-00011     Document Type: Article

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