Mycobacterium avium infection of the skin associated with lichen scrofulosorum: Report of three cases

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 554-557

  Komatsu, Hachiro ^a   Terunuma, A ^a   Tabata, N ^a   Tagami, H ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lichen scrofulosorum; Mycobacterium avium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LICHENOID ERUPTION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PAPULE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRANULOMA; SKIN INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISONIAZID; LICHENOID ERUPTIONS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIFAMPIN; THORAX; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 0032836148     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.03059.x     Document Type: Article

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