Spectrum of mycobacterial infections: Tuberculosis and mycobacterium other than tuberculosis in dialysis patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 448-451

  Basok, Anna ^a   Vorobiov, Marina ^a   Rogachev, Boris ^a   Avnon, Luna ^a   Tovbin, David ^a   Hausmann, Michael ^a   Belenko, Natalya ^b   Zlotnik, Moshe ^a   Shnaider, Alla ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dialysis; Extra pulmonary; Mycobacterium; Mycobacterium other than TB; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CEFIXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIALYSIS; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANOPROLIFERATIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STOMACH JUICE; TUBERCULOUS PLEURISY; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; URINE CULTURE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; HEMODIALYSIS UNITS, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; ISRAEL; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PLEURAL CAVITY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS;

EID: 34250855701     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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