First report on isolation of Mycobacterium monacense from sputum specimen in India

Lung India

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-126

  Lily Therese, K ^a   Gayathri, R ^a   Thiruppathi, K ^b   Madhavan, H N ^a  

^a VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b Narayana Hospitals   (India)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium monacense; rapid growers of mycobacteria; sputum

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; GATIFLOXACIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ISONIAZID; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MONACENSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960202026     PISSN: 09702113     EISSN: 0974598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-2113.80326     Document Type: Article

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