Mycobacterium avium complex pulmonary disease in immunocompetent patients

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 646-652

  Chitty, Stephen A ^a,b   Ali, Juzar ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchiectasis; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Mycobacteria; Mycobacteria other than tuberculosis (MOTT)

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLOFAZIMINE; CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MEFLOQUINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTHRALGIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEMOPTYSIS; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IRIDOCYCLITIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VISUAL DISORDER;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHIECTASIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION;

EID: 20544467226     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000154311.60057.56     Document Type: Review

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