A chronic pulmonary disease caused by Mycobacterium lentiflavum in a patient with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 79-

  Iwamoto, Tomotada ^a   Sonobe, Toshiaki ^a   Hayashi, Kozaburo ^a   Okazaki, Miki ^b   Umeda, Bunichi ^b  

^a KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KOBE CITY MEDICAL CENTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHOSCOPE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; COUGHING; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LENTIFLAVUM; RNA GENE; SMOKING HABIT; SPUTUM; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344950460     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-4399(03)80018-1     Document Type: Article

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