Misindentification of Mycobacterium kumamotonense as M. tuberculosis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1178-1180

  Rodríguez Aranda, Almudena ^a   Jiménez, María S ^b   Yubero, Jesús ^c   Chaves, Fernando ^a   Rubio García, Rafael ^a   Palenque, Elia ^a   García, María J ^c   Carmen Menendez M ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; EMTRICITABINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; TENOFOVIR;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNE RECONSTITUTION INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME; LETTER; LIQUID CULTURE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KUMAMOTONENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENITIS; VIRUS LOAD; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77954441869     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1607.091913     Document Type: Letter

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