Clinical features and follow up of 302 patients with Mycobacterium kansasii pulmonary infection: A 50 year experience

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 81, Issue 958, 2005, Pages 530-533

  Maliwan, N ^a,b   Zvetina, J R ^c  

^a VAH   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEPTIC ULCER; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; SMOKING; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 23844542462     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2004.026229     Document Type: Article

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