Mycobacterium heckeshornense lung infection that was diagnosed as mycobacterium xenopi disease by DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH)

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1251-1253

  Morimoto, Kozo ^a   Kazumi, Yuko ^b   Maeda, Shinji ^b   Yoshimori, Kozo ^a   Yoshiyama, Takashi ^a   Ogata, Hideo ^a   Kurashima, Atsuyuki ^a   Kudoh, Shoji ^a  

^a Japan Anti Tuberculosis Association   (Japan)

^b FUKUJUJI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA DNA hybridization; Mycobacterium heckeshornense; Mycobacterium xenopi

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM HECKESHORNENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; REVIEW; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958020592     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.4628     Document Type: Review

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