Laboratory diagnosis of nontuberculous mycobacteria

Clinics in Chest Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 585-597

  Somoskovi, Akos ^a,b   Mester, Judit ^c,g   Hale, Yvonne M ^e   Parsons, Linda M ^d,f   Salfinger, Max ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL KORANYI INSTITUTE OF PULMONOLOGY   (Hungary)

^d WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^e FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0036739580     PISSN: 02725231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-5231(02)00018-7     Document Type: Review

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