Soft tissue infections due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria following mesotherapy. What is the price of beauty?;Infecciones en tejidos blandos por micobacterias no tuberculosas secundarias a mesoterapia. ¿Cuánto vale la belleza?

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 302-306

  Rivera Olivero, Ismar Alejandra ^a   Guevara, Armando ^a   Escalona, Arnelly ^a   Oliver, Margarita ^a   Pérez Alfonzo, Ricardo ^a   Piquero, Jaime ^a   Zerpa, Olga ^a   De Waard, Jacobus H ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA   (Venezuela)

^b Hospital Vargas de Caracas   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Mesotherapy; Non tuberculous mycobacteria; Soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETICS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM COSMETICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; VENEZUELA;

EID: 33745433345     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13089664     Document Type: Article

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