Nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from pulmonary specimens between 2004 and 2009: Causative agent or not?

New Microbiologica

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 399-403

  Bicmen, Can ^a   Coskun, Meral ^a   Gunduz, Ayriz T ^a   Senol, Gunes ^a   Kadri Cirak, A ^a   Tibet, Gultekin ^a  

^a Dr Suat Seren Training and Research Hospital for Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atypical mycobacterium; LiPA; Mycobacteria other than tuberculosis; Nontuberculous mycobacteria; PCR based reverse hybridization

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; TURKEY;

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

EID: 78650248245     PISSN: 11217138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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