Failure to recognize nontuberculous mycobacteria leads to misdiagnosis of chronic pulmonary tuberculosis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Maiga, Mamoudou ^a   Siddiqui, Sophia ^b   Diallo, Souleymane ^a   Diarra, Bassirou ^a   Traoré, Brehima ^a   Shea, Yvonne R ^c   Zelazny, Adrian M ^c   Dembele, Bindongo P P ^a   Goita, Drissa ^a   Kassambara, Hamadoun ^a   Hammond, Abdulrahman S ^a   Polis, Michael A ^b   Tounkara, Anatole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMAKO   (Mali)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MALI; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PALUSTRE; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MALI; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84861206776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036902     Document Type: Article

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