Microbacterias de crecimiento rápido en patología humana

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 279-286

  Esteban, Jaime ^a   Fernández Roblas, Ricardo ^a   Soriano, Francisco ^a  

^a Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; FISH; FISH DISEASE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM;

EID: 0034198375     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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