Human-to-human transmission of Mycobacterium kansasii or victims of a shared source?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1085-1087

  Ricketts, William M ^a   O'Shaughnessy, Terence C ^b   Van Ingen, Jakko ^c  

^a WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BRONCHIECTASIS; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DECREASED APPETITE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPHYSEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LETTER; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION; TRANSMISSION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII;

EID: 84907533121     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00066614     Document Type: Letter

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