Hot-tub lung: Hypersensitivity to Mycobacterium avium but not hypersensitivity pneumonitis

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1478-

  Agarwal, Ritesh ^a   Nath, Alok ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 33745383847     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2006.03.041     Document Type: Letter

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