The first case of Mycobacterium sherrisii disseminated infection in a child with AIDS [5]

AIDS

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1496-1498

  Tortoli, Enrico ^a   Galli, Luisa ^b   Andebirhan, Tsighe ^c   Baruzzo, Serena ^a   Chiappini, Elena ^b   De Martino, Maurizio ^b   Brown Elliott, Barbara A ^d  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Orotta Medical School   (Eritrea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; LAMIVUDINE; LINEZOLID; LOPINAVIR; MOXIFLOXACIN; MYCOLIC ACID; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE; STREPTOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LETTER; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBATERIUM SHERRISII; PERINATAL INFECTION; PERITONEAL FLUID; PHOTOCHROMOGENIC BACTERIUM; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THRUSH;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AMIKACIN; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS;

EID: 34250806069     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328235a53c     Document Type: Letter

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