Rapidly growing mycobacteria infection in patients with cancer

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 422-434

  Redelman Sidi, Gil ^a   Sepkowitz, Kent A ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM NEOAURUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOLID TUMOR; COMPLICATION; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

EID: 77955684765     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655140     Document Type: Article

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