The recovery of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAC) from the residential bathrooms of patients with pulmonary MAC

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 347-351

  Nishiuchi, Yukiko ^a,d   Maekura, Ryoji ^b   Kitada, Seigo ^b   Tamaru, Aki ^c   Taguri, Takahiro ^b   Kira, Yukimi ^a   Hiraga, Toru ^b   Hirotani, Atsushi ^b   Yoshimura, Kenji ^b   Miki, Mari ^b   Ito, Masami ^b  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMANS; HYGIENE; JAPAN; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; REFERENCE VALUES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 34547092151     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519383     Document Type: Article

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