PCR detection of co-infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium avium in AIDS patients with meningitis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue PART12, 2012, Pages 1789-1791

  Sharma, Kusum ^a   Sharma, Aman ^a   Modi, Manish ^a   Singh, Gagandeep ^a   Kaur, Harsimran ^a   Varma, Subhash ^a   Sharma, Meera ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; COINFECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84869397657     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.045898-0     Document Type: Letter

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