Polyclonal Mycobacterium avium complex infections in patients with nodular bronchiectasis

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1235-1244

  Wallace Jr , Richard J ^a   Zhang, Yansheng ^b   Brown, Barbara A ^b   Dawson, David ^b   Murphy, David T ^b   Wilson, Rebecca ^b   Griffith, David E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITY; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SMOKING; SPUTUM CULTURE;

EID: 15144345929     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.158.4.9712098     Document Type: Article

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