Characterization of the first report of Mycobacterium timonense infecting an HIV patient in an Ecuadorian hospital

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages O1113-O1116

  Zurita, J ^a,b,c   Ortega Paredes, D ^c   Mora, M ^c   Espinel, N ^c   Parra, H ^d   Febres, L ^a   Zurita Salinas, C ^c  

^a HOSPITAL VOZANDES   (Ecuador)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

^c Unidad de Investigaciones en Biomedicina   (Ecuador)

^d Centro de Investigaciones Microbiológicas   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium timonense; Ecuador; Mycobacterium avium complex; Non tuberculous mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; LEVOFLOXACIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN 60; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 65, MYCOBACTERIUM; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CASE REPORT; ECUADOR; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL; HSP65 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TIMONENSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE; RRS GENE; TREATMENT DURATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRANCE; GENETICS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;

ADULT; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CHAPERONIN 60; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ECUADOR; FRANCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84920439837     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12675     Document Type: Article

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