Laboratory aspects of clinically significant rapidly growing mycobacteria

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-352

  Set, R ^a   Shastri, J ^a  

^a BYL NAIR CHARITABLE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Healthcare associated infections; Mycobacterium abscessus; Mycobacterium chelonae; Mycobacterium fortuitum

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DNA; DOXYCYCLINE; GATIFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; NORFLOXACIN; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; WATER;

AGAR MEDIUM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY FLUID; BONE AND JOINT INFECTIONS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; BROTH DILUTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENITIS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GRAFT INFECTION; HEALTH CARE; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY; LABORATORY; LAPAROSCOPY; LIPOSUCTION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHADENITIS; MICROSCOPY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONTUBERCULAR MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PLASTIC SURGERY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PUS; RADIOGRAPHY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SARCOIDOSIS; SKIN INFECTION; SMEAR; STOMACH FUNCTION DISORDER; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 82555183060     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: 19983646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.90157     Document Type: Article

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