Mycobacterial infections in coal workers' pneumoconiosis patients in South Korea

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 656-662

  Kim, Young Mi ^a   Kim, Myungshin ^a   Kim, Seong Keun ^a   Park, Kyoungsil ^a   Jin, Song Hyo ^a   Lee, Ui Sun ^a   Kim, Yonggoo ^a   Chae, Gue Tae ^a   Lee, Seong Beom ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KATG PROTEIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AHPC BACTERIAL GENE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBB BACTERIAL GENE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INHA BACTERIAL GENE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RPOB BACTERIAL GENE; SOUTH KOREA;

AGED; ANTHRACOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 70849085439     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540903089468     Document Type: Article

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