Clinical significance of a single isolation of pathogenic nontuberculous mycobacteria from sputum specimens

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 225-226

  Koh, Won Jung ^a   Chang, Boksoon ^a   Ko, Yousang ^a   Jeong, Byeong Ho ^a   Hong, Goohyeon ^a   Park, Hye Yun ^a   Jeon, Kyeongman ^a   Lee, Nam Yong ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Lung disease; Mycobacterium abscessus; Mycobacterium avium complex; Nontuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM EXAMINATION;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; SPUTUM;

EID: 84872500485     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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