Familial disseminated infection due to atypical mycobacteria with childhood onset

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 822-825

  Vesterhus, Per ^a   Holland, Steven M ^b   Abrahamsen, Tore G ^b   Bjerknes, Robert ^b  

^a Vest Agder Central Hospital   (Norway)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; ISONIAZID; LIGAND; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FAMILIAL INCIDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 2442751867     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514939     Document Type: Article

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