Rapidly aggravated Mycobacterium avium infection in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis treated with infliximab

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 62-64

  Okubo, Hikaru ^a   Iwamoto, Masahiro ^a   Yoshio, Taku ^a   Okazaki, Hitoaki ^a   Kato, Tomoko ^a   Bandoh, Masashi ^a   Minota, Seiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infliximab; Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC); Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AUROTHIOMALATE; BUCILLAMINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; FROPENEM; INFLIXIMAB; LOBENZARIT; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 14544302139     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-004-0360-z     Document Type: Article

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