Mycobacterial synovitis caused by slow-growing nonchromogenic species: Eighteen cases and a review of the literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 783-791

  Olsen, Randall J ^a   Cernoch, Patricia L ^b   Land, Geoffrey A ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMPUTATION; ARTHRALGIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIAL SYNOVITIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MALMOENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM NONCHROMOGENICUM; REVIEW; STAINING; SYNOVITIS; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYNOVIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745014874     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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