Mycobacterium tuberculosis at a comprehensive cancer centre: Active disease in patients with underlying malignancy during 1990-2000

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 749-752

  De La Rosa, G R ^a   Jacobson, K L ^a   Rolston, K V ^a   Raad, I I ^a   Kontoyiannis, D P ^a   Safdar, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Corticosteroids; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CENTER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; LEUKEMIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 4544223194     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2004.00954.x     Document Type: Article

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