Disseminated Mycobacterium mucogenicum infection in a patient with idiopathic CD4+ T lymphocytopenia manifesting as fever of unknown origin [2]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 759-760

  Vargas, Jair ^a,d   Gamboa, Carmen ^a   Negrin, Domingo ^a   Correa, Maria ^a   Sandoval, Cindy ^a   Aguiar, Amerindia ^a   Prieto, Mercedes ^a   Rodriguez Morales, Alfonso J ^b   De Waard, Jacobus ^a   Yakrus, Mitchell ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Venezuela)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d CRLos Angeles T 2   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BONE MARROW CULTURE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; T-LYMPHOCYTOPENIA, IDIOPATHIC CD4-POSITIVE;

EID: 23844551218     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432622     Document Type: Letter

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