Nontuberculous mycobacteria among patients who are suspected for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis - Need for earlier identification of nontuberculosis mycobacteria

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 337, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 182-184

  Tabarsi, Payam ^a   Baghaei, Parvaneh ^a   Farnia, Parisa ^a   Mansouri, Nahal ^a   Chitsaz, Ehsan ^a   Sheikholeslam, Fatemeh ^a   Marjani, Majid ^a   Rouhani, Nima ^a   Mirsaeidi, Mehdi ^a   Alipanah, Narges ^a   Amiri, Majid ^a   Masjedi, Mohammad R ^a   Mansouri, Davood ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

CAT II regimen; Multidrug resistant tuberculosis; Nontuberculosis mycobacterium; PCR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 63249093056     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318185d32f     Document Type: Article

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