Intestinal involvement by nontuberculous mycobacteria after heart transplantation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 603-605

  Muñoz, Rosa María ^a   Alonso Pulpón, Luis ^a   Yebra, Miguel ^a   Segovia, Javier ^a   Gallego, Juan Carlos ^a   Daza, Rosa María ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETHAMBUTOL; MACROLIDE; RIFABUTIN;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034119271     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313711     Document Type: Article

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