Report of two cases of Mycobacterium europaeum from Iran

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 539-541

  Pourahmad, Fazel ^a   Shojaei, Hasan ^b   Heidarieh, Parvin ^c   Khosravi, Azardokht ^c   Hashemi, Abodolrazagh ^c  

^a ILAM UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; IRAN; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM EUROPAEUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; VIRUS LOAD; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPUTUM;

EID: 84869855529     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7883/yoken.65.539     Document Type: Article

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