Mycobacterium abscessus and Children with Cystic Fibrosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1587-1591

  Sermet Gaudelus, Isabelle ^a   Le Bourgeois, Muriel ^a   Pierre Audigier, Catherine ^a   Offredo, Catherine ^a   Guillemot, Didier ^b   Halley, Sophie ^a   Akoua Koffi, Chantal ^a   Vincent, Véronique ^b   Sivadon Tardy, Valérie ^c   Ferroni, Agnès ^a   Berche, Patrick ^a   Scheinmann, Pierre ^a   Lenoir, Gérard ^a   Gaillard, Jean Louis ^c  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; COLISTIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NONHUMAN; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 10744228115     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0912.020774     Document Type: Article

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