On the road to unravelling the aetiology of non-tuberculous mycobacterial disease

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1279-

  Van Soolingen, Dick ^a,b   Van Ingen, Jakko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 84866459816     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.12.0630     Document Type: Editorial

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