Severe hyperferritinemia in mycobacteria tuberculosis infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 273-274

  Visser, Adele ^a   Van De Vyver, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPHAGOCYTIC SYNDROME; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERFERRITINEMIA; LETTER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79951844271     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq126     Document Type: Letter

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