Mycobacterium haemophilum as a novel etiology of cervical lymphadenitis in an otherwise healthy adult patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2636-2639

  Minani, Theobald J C ^a   Saubolle, Michael A ^b,c   Yu, Edwin ^a,c   Sussland, Zdenek ^b  

^a BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Banner Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHADENITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; CASE REPORT; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; INJURY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTITUBERCULAR; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77954434545     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00814-10     Document Type: Article

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