Vertebral osteomyelitis due to infection with nontuberculous Mycobacterium species after blunt trauma to the back: 3 Examples of the principle of Locus minoris resistentiae

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1506-1510

  Chan, Edward D ^a,b   Kong, Po Marn ^a,b   Fennelly, Kevin ^a,b   Dwyer, Anthony P ^c   Iseman, Michael D ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; OSTEOMYELITIS; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONDYLITIS;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; OSTEOMYELITIS; SPINE; SPONDYLITIS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0035873492     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/320155     Document Type: Article

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