Pulmonary Mycobacterium intermedium disease in an elderly man with healed pulmonary tuberculosis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1473-1474

  Ito, Akihide ^a,d   Kishi, Fujiya ^a   Saito, Nariyoshi ^b   Kazumi, Yuko ^c   Mitarai, Satoshi ^c  

^a Hokkaido Social Insurance Hospital   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^d HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY MYCOBACTERIUM INTERMEDIUM DISEASE; SPUTUM SMEAR; X RAY;

AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

BACILLI; MYCOBACTERIUM INTERMEDIUM;

EID: 14944347054     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.3.1473-1474.2005     Document Type: Article

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