Mycobacterium novocastrense-associated pulmonary and wound infections

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 550-551

  Shojaei, Hasan ^a   Hashemi, Abodolrazagh ^a   Heidarieh, Parvin ^b   Naser, Abass Daei ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DNA 16S;

ADULT; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LEG EDEMA; LETTER; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM NOVOCASTRENSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUBLICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THORAX PAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952334610     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1703.101400     Document Type: Letter

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