Propionibacterium acnes is the most common bacterium commensal in peripheral lung tissue and mediastinal lymph nodes from subjects without sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-42

  Ishige, Ikuo ^a   Eishi, Yoshinobu ^a   Takemura, Tamiko ^b   Kobayashi, Intetsu ^c   Nakata, Koh ^d   Tanaka, Isao ^b   Nagaoka, Sakae ^b   Iwai, Kazuro ^e   Watanabe, Kunitomo ^f   Takizawa, Touichiro ^a   Koike, Mono ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c LSI MEDIENCE CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^f GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteriological technique; P. acnes; RAPD technique

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMMENSALISM; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FLORA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SARCOIDOSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 20144389191     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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