Clinical relevance of nontuberculous mycobacteria, Oman

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 292-294

  Al Mahruqi, Sara H ^a   Van Ingen, Jakko ^b,c   Al Busaidy, Suleiman ^a   Boeree, Martin J ^b   Al Zadjali, Samiya ^a   Patel, Arti ^a   Dekhuijzen, P N Richard ^b   Van Soolingen, Dick ^c  

^a Central Public Health Laboratory   (Oman)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ISONIAZID; MACROLIDE; PYRAZINAMIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ULCERANS; OMAN; PSEUDOINFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; OMAN; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; URINE;

EID: 63849087612     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1502.080977     Document Type: Article

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