Editorial: Pulmonary disease due to nontuberculous mycobacteria: An epidemiologists view

Future Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-345

  Winthrop, Kevin L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77949381819     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.10.13     Document Type: Editorial

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