MonoMAC versus idiopathic CD4 + lymphocytopenia

Haematologica

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 9-11

  Chu, Vicki H ^a   Curry, Jonathan L ^b   Tarek Elghetany, M ^a   Curry, Choladda V ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphocytopenia; Monocytopenia; MonoMAC; Mycobacterium avium complex

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DEATH; ERYTHEMA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; FOOT ULCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LETTER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MONOCYTOPENIA; MONOCYTOPENIA WITH MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPSIS; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN ULCER; SPUTUM CULTURE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; MONOCYTES; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES;

EID: 84859467343     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: 15928721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3324/haematol.2011.058669     Document Type: Letter

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