Fish tank exposure and cutaneous infections due to Mycobacterium marinum: Tuberculin skin testing, treatment, and prevention

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 390-397

  Lewis, Felicia M T ^a   Marsh, Bryan J ^a   Von Reyn, C Fordham ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FISHES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0043162140     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/376628     Document Type: Article

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