A case of pulmonary Mycobacterium intracellulare infection complicated with pneumothorax and pleurisy

Kekkaku

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 571-575

  Fukumoto, Jutaro ^a   Inoshima, Ichiro ^a   Fujita, Masaki ^a   Kuwano, Kazuyoshi ^a   Nakanishi, Yoichi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium intracellulare; Non tuberculous mycobacterium infection; Pleurisy; Pneumothorax

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURISY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM CULTURE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; PLEURISY; PNEUMOTHORAX; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25144489690     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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