Emergence of a unique group of necrotizing mycobacterial diseases

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 367-378

  Dobos, Karen M ^a,b   Quinn, Frederick D ^b   Ashford, David A ^b   Horsburgh, C Robert ^a   King, C Harold ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 0033042408     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0503.990307     Document Type: Review

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