A Novel Defect in Interferon-γ Secretion in Patients with Refractory Nontuberculous Pulmonary Mycobacteriosis [4]

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 521-

  Safdar, Amar ^a   Armstrong, Donald ^a   Murray, Henry W ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; IMMUNOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SECRETION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RECURRENCE; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0037453137     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-138-6-200303180-00030     Document Type: Letter

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