Prolonged culture for mycobacteria in mediastinal lymph nodes from patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis. A negative study

Sarcoidosis Vasculitis and Diffuse Lung Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-28

  Milman, Nils ^a,d   Lisby, Gorm ^b   Friis, Søren ^c   Kemp, Lone ^c  

^a Section of Lung Transplantation   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Nætved Hospital   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Mycobacteria; Polymerase chain reaction; Sarcoidosis; Sarcoidosis, etiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TOILET;

ADULT; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 2042441743     PISSN: 11240490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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