Disseminated infection due to Mycobacterium simiae in an AIDS patient: Case report and review

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 294-296

  Alcalá, Luis ^a   Ruiz Serrano, María Jesús ^a   Cosín, Jaime ^a   García Garrote, Fernando ^a   Ortega, Arturo ^b   Bouza, Emilio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SPARFLOXACIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; SIMIAE;

EID: 0033048192     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00146.x     Document Type: Article

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