Comparison of clinico-radiological features of patients with positive cultures of nontuberculous mycobacteria and patients with tuberculosis

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 754-758

  BaHammam, Ahmed ^a   Kambal, Abdelmageed ^b   Sharif, Yasir ^a   Masood, Mohammad ^a   Isnani, Arthur ^a   Youssef, Ismael ^a   Shaikh, Shaffi ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEVER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MYCOBACTERIUM; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SAUDI ARABIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 21344455342     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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