Mixed pulmonary infection with three types of nontuberculous mycobacteria

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 507-510

  Kurahara, Yu ^a   Tachibana, Kazunobu ^a   Tsuyuguchi, Kazunari ^a   Suzuki, Katsuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KINKI CHUO CHEST MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mixed infection; Nontuberculous mycobacterium

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BLISTER; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DYSPNEA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEMOPTYSIS; HOME OXYGEN THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LUNG CALCIFICATION; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LESION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; SILICOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII;

EID: 84873968385     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.8907     Document Type: Article

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