Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of mycobacterium haemophilum infections

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 701-717

  Lindeboom, Jerome A ^a   van Coppenraet, Lesla E S Bruijnesteijn ^b   van Soolingen, Dick ^c   Prins, Jan M ^a   Kuijper, Eduard J ^d  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; EPIDIDYMIS DISEASE; EYE DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHADENITIS; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PYOMYOSITIS; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TEST; TAXONOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS;

MYCOBACTERIUM HAEMOPHILUM;

EID: 80053598866     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00020-11     Document Type: Note

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