"Mycobacterium tilburgii," a newly described, uncultivated opportunistic pathogen

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1585-1587

  Palmore, Tara N ^a,d   Shea, Yvonne R ^b   Conville, Patricia S ^b   Witebsky, Frank G ^b   Anderson, Victoria L ^a   Hodge, Irene P Rupp ^c   Holland, Steven M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Rochester Infectious Disease   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHIONAMIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLUBBING FINGERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTERITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TILBURGII; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCULT BLOOD; PALPATION; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUSH ENTEROSCOPY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WHEEZING;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; JEJUNUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

MYCOBACTERIUM TILBURGII;

EID: 66149137503     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02385-08     Document Type: Article

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