Male genital tuberculosis

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 335-342

  Jacob, Jesse T ^a   Nguyen, Minh Ly T ^a   Ray, Susan M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; LEVOFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BCG VACCINATION; BLADDER SPASM; BRUCELLA; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DYSURIA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMITIS; FEVER; FISTULA; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; INFERTILITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; ORCHIECTOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PYURIA; RADIOGRAPHY; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAINING; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TESTIS; ULTRASOUND; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; URINARY DIVERSION; URINE CULTURE; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; VASCULITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DYSURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MALE GENITAL;

EID: 42949110708     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70101-4     Document Type: Review

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