A case of Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum pulmonary infection showing multiple nodular shadows in an immunocompetent patient

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-314

  Sawai, Toyomitsu ^a   Inoue, Yuichi ^a   Doi, Seiji ^a   Izumikawa, Koichi ^b   Ohno, Hideaki ^b   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^b   Higashiyama, Yasuhito ^b   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^b   Hirakata, Yoichi ^b   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^b  

^a Isahaya General Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunocompetent patient; Multiple nodular shadows; Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum; Pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG NODULE; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM NONCHROMOGENICUM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STOMACH SUCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 33645854926     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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