The epidemiology of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria: Data from a general hospital in Athens, Greece, 2007-2013

Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Panagiotou, Marios ^a   Papaioannou, Andriana I ^a   Kostikas, Konstantinos ^b   Paraskeua, Maria ^a   Velentza, Ekaterini ^a   Kanellopoulou, Maria ^a   Filaditaki, Vasiliki ^a   Karagiannidis, Napoleon ^a  

^a AMALIA FLEMING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GREECE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM MAGERITENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM LENTIFLAVUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SCROFULACEUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933057115     PISSN: 20901836     EISSN: 20901844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/894976     Document Type: Article

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