Disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guérin, miliary type: Autopsy findings and diagnosis using polymerase chain reaction

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-148

  Drut, Ricardo ^a   Quijano, Graciela ^a  

^a Hospital de Ninos Sor Maria Ludovica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bacillus Calmette Gu rin; Disseminated bacillus Calmette Gu rin; Immunodeficiency; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BCG VACCINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FATALITY; GENETICS; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PATHOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; BCG VACCINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, MILIARY;

EID: 0032009249     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100249900018     Document Type: Article

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