Atypical mycobacterial infection in patients with cystic fibrosis: Update on clinical microbiology methods

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 459-466

  Jordan, P W ^a   Stanley, T ^a   Donnelly, F M ^a   Elborn, J S ^a,b   McClurg, R B ^a   Millar, B C ^a   Goldsmith, C E ^a   Moore, J E ^a  

^a BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cystic fibrosis CF; Mycobacteria other than tubercle bacilli; Mycobacterium abscessus; Nontuberculous mycobacteria; PCR; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA;

ATYPICALS; CYSTIC FIBROSE CYSTIC FIBROSE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; MYCOBACTERIA ABSCESSU; MYCOBACTERIA OTHER THAN TUBERCLE BACILLUS; MYCOBACTERIAL; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; PCR; TUBERCULOSIS;

DECONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GROWTH KINETICS; PATIENT MONITORING;

BACTERIUM; DISEASE PREVALENCE; PATHOGEN; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRULENCE;

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACILLI (CLASS); BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 34247369441     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2007.02130.x     Document Type: Article

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