A clinical study on cases with pulmonary M. avium complex (MAC) disease followed up for more than 10 years

Kekkaku

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 517-523

  Harada, Susumu ^a   Harada, Yasuko ^a   Ochiai, Sanae ^a   Emori, Mikiko ^a   Kajiki, Akira ^a   Kitahara, Yoshiya ^a   Takamoto, Masahiro ^a   Ishibashi, Tsuneo ^a  

^a Omuta National Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Long term follow up cases; M. avium complex; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOSALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; SPARFLOXACIN; STREPTOMYCIN SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PROGNOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0041470252     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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