Pulmonary disease due to Mycobacterium arosiense, an easily misidentified pathogenic novel mycobacterium

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1947-1949

  Tortoli, Enrico ^a   Adriani, Beatrice ^b   Baruzzo, Serena ^a   Degl'Innocenti, Roberto ^b   Galanti, Irene ^c   Lauria, Stefania ^a   Mariottini, Alessandro ^a   Pascarella, Michela ^d  

^a CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b MISERICORDIA E DOLCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^d SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ETHAMBUTOL; GATIFLOXACIN; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AROSIENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE;

EID: 66749190887     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02449-08     Document Type: Article

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