Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in Brazil [18]

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-64

  dos Santos, Vitorino Modesto ^a,b   Noronha, Flávio L ^a   Vicentina, Érica C ^a   Lima, Camila C ^a  

^a Hospital das Forcas Armadas Brasilia   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BCG VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTHRODESIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HEALING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALNUTRITION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; OSTEOMYELITIS; RURAL AREA; SKIN DEFECT; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; SKIN ULCER;

AGED; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 34447530215     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01138.x     Document Type: Letter

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