Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in children: A 2-year prospective surveillance study in the Netherlands

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 450-456

  Haverkamp, Margje H ^a   Arend, Sandra M ^a   Lindeboom, Jerome A ^b   Hartwig, Nico G ^c   Van Dissel, Jaap T ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; MYCOBACTERIUM ANTIGEN;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NETHERLANDS; NEWBORN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN TEST; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 4344706162     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422319     Document Type: Article

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