Clinical and radiological features of Mycobacterium kansasii infection and Mycobacterium simiae infection

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 102, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1598-1603

  Shitrit, David ^a,b,c   Peled, Nir ^a,b,c   Bishara, Jihad ^a,b   Priess, Rachel ^c   Pitlik, Silvio ^a,b   Samra, Zmira ^a,b   Kramer, Mordechai R ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Tuberculosis Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Diagnosis; Mycobacterium kansasii; Mycobacterium simiae; Pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; OUTPATIENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 55549103327     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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