Mycobacterium shinjukuense lung disease that was successfully treated with antituberculous drugs

Internal Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2653-2655

  Watanabe, Keisuke ^a   Shinkai, Masaharu ^a   Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro ^a   Shinoda, Masahiro ^a   Hara, Yu ^a   Ishigatsubo, Yoshiaki ^b   Kaneko, Takeshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antituberculous drugs; Mycobacterium shinjukuense lung disease

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SHINJUKUENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SHINJUKUENSE LUNG DISEASE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHAPERONIN 60; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA;

EID: 84888799472     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.52.1116     Document Type: Article

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