From mycobacteria to sarcoidosis - Is the gate still open?

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-15

  Milman, Nils ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

COMORBIDITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33644560017     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000090991     Document Type: Editorial

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