Sputum adenosine deaminase activity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer

Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-535

  Samara, Ioanna ^a   Bakakos, Petros ^a   Orphanidou, Dora ^b   Latsi, Panagiota ^a   Katsimpoula, Sofia ^a   Papaetis, Georgios S ^b   Dimakou, Katerina ^a  

^a SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adenosine deaminase; Sputum; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; SUPERNATANT;

BACILLI (CLASS);

EID: 35348923017     PISSN: 1230025X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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