Hot tub associated granulomatous lung disease from mycobacterial bioaerosols

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 138-144

  Glazer, Craig ^a   Martyny, John ^b   Rose, Cecile ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrinsic allergic alveolitis; Hypersensitivity pneumonitis; Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSOL; AGED; AIR SAMPLING; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GRANULOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; WATER SAMPLING;

EID: 44649183650     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e3181728350     Document Type: Article

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