Cutaneous Mycobacterium shigaense infection in immunocompetent woman, China

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 819-820

  Cui, Pangen ^a   Vissa, Varalakshmi ^b   Li, Wei ^b   Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Lin, Lin ^a   Wang, Hongsheng ^a   Liu, Xiaolin ^a   Wu, Qinxue ^a   Zong, Wenkai ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; HSP65; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MOXIFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LETTER; LYMPHANGIECTASIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SHIGAENSE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCOTOCHROMOGENIC MYCOBACTERIUM; SKIN DEFECT;

BACTERIA; CHINA; CUTANEOUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT; INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM SHIGAENSE; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; NTM; TUBERCULOSIS AND OTHER MYCOBACTERIA;

CHINA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84876749221     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.121022     Document Type: Letter

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