Genitourinary infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria at a university hospital in Taiwan, 1996-2008

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1585-1590

  Huang, C T ^a   Chen, C Y ^a   Chen, H Y ^a   Chou, C H ^a   Ruan, S Y ^a   Lai, C C ^b   Hsueh, P R ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CARDINAL TIEN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Genitourinary infection; Nontuberculous mycobacteria; Outcomes; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; HEMOGLOBIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSURIA; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; GENE SEQUENCE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HEMATURIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; KIDNEY CYST; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PROTEINURIA; PYURIA; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TAIWAN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URETER STENT; URETER STRICTURE; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINE CULTURE; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; UROGENITAL TUBERCULOSIS; UROSEPSIS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM;

EID: 77957052606     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03180.x     Document Type: Article

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