Mycobacterium lentiflavum in drinking water supplies, Australia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 395-402

  Marshall, Henry M ^a   Carter, Robyn ^b   Torbey, Matthew J ^b   Minion, Sharri ^b   Tolson, Carla ^b   Sidjabat, Hanna E ^c   Huygens, Flavia ^d   Hargreaves, Megan ^d   Thomson, Rachel M ^e  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e Queensland Tuberculosis Control Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DRINKING WATER; EFAVIRENZ; EMTRICITABINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TENOFOVIR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CERVICAL LYMPHADENITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENITIS; MILIARY TUBERCULOSIS; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LENTIFLAVUM; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SARCOIDOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; SPUTUM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WATER SUPPLY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRINKING; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUEENSLAND; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79952320037     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1703.090948     Document Type: Article

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