Otitis media and otomastoiditis caused by Mycobacterium massiliense (Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3754-3756

  Lee, Meng Rui ^a,b   Tsai, Hsih Yeh ^b,c   Cheng, Aristine ^b,c   Liu, Chia Ying ^c   Huang, Yu Tsung ^c   Liao, Chun Hsing ^c   Liang, Sheng Kai ^b   Lee, Li Na ^b   Hsueh, Po Ren ^b  

^a TAO YUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; FRAMYCETIN; GRAMICIDIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

23S RRNA GENE; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; EAR DISCHARGE; EAR DISEASE; EARDRUM PERFORATION; ERM(41) GENE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MASTOIDECTOMY; MASTOIDITIS; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM MASSILIENSE; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; OTOMASTOIDITIS; OTORRHEA; PETROSECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE; TYMPANOPLASTY; VERTIGO;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLARITHROMYCIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MASTOIDITIS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; OTITIS MEDIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867557614     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01049-12     Document Type: Article

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