Species spectrum of nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from clinical specimens in Kuwait

Current Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 413-417

  Mokaddas, Eiman ^a   Ahmad, Suhail ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; DNA 23S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA SEQUENCE; KUWAIT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

DNA PROBES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 43349093492     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-008-9102-3     Document Type: Article

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