Mycobacterium paraffinicum causing symptomatic pulmonary infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1281-1283

  Chan, Austin W ^a   Kabbani, Sarah ^b   Staton, Gerald ^b   Kraft, Colleen S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CREATININE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; POTASSIUM; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; SODIUM; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC COUGH; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG CLEARANCE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALAISE; MONOCYTE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PARAFFINICUM; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIGEON THORAX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WEAKNESS; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84897131491     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03107-13     Document Type: Article

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