Host susceptibility or environmental exposure in Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease: It takes two to tango

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 585-586

  Marras, Theodore K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EDITORIAL; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX LUNG INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION;

EID: 84867137463     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201208-1432ED     Document Type: Editorial

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