Isolation of Mycobacterium kyorinense in a patient with respiratory failure

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 568-570

  Wada, Hiroo ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a   Okazaki, Mitsuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Takashi ^a   Goto, Hajime ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; BIAPENEM; BICALUTAMIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CISPLATIN; LEUPRORELIN;

AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREATHING RATE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DYSPNEA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LETTER; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KYORINENSE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SMOKING; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 65349175046     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-150-8-200904210-00018     Document Type: Letter

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