Pericarditis as primary manifestation of Mycobacterium bovis ssp. caprae infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 431-433

  Blaas, S H ^a   Bohm S ^a   Martin, G ^b   Erler, W ^b   Gluck T ^a   Lehn, N ^a   Naumann, L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Fed Inst Hlth Protect C   (Germany)

^c Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sights   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium bovis ssp. caprae; Pericarditis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOKINESIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALAISE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PERICARDITIS, TUBERCULOUS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 1642324457     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(03)00134-2     Document Type: Article

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