Lay clinics and an epidemic outbreak of mycobacterium skin and soft-tissue infection [43]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 800-801

  Prado, Arturo C ^a   Castillo, Paulo F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN NODULE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CHILE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; INJECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; OBESITY; QUACKERY;

CHILE; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; OBESITY; QUACKERY; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 1442288481     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000104554.85145.AE     Document Type: Letter

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