Clinical and therapeutic features of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease, Brazil, 1993-2011

Authors :: de Mello, Karla Gripp Couto
Mello, Fernanda C. Queiroz
Borga, Liamar
Rolla, Valeria
Duarte, Rafael S.
Sampaio, Elizabeth P.
Holland, Steven M.
Prevots, D. Rebecca
Dalcolmo, Margareth P.
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases. March 2013, Vol. 19 Issue 3, p393, 7 p.
Publication Year :: 2013
Abstract: Pulmonary disease caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (PNTM) frequently causes sickness and death. These bacteria are found in water sources and soil and are particularly concentrated in biofilms (1,2). Certain clinical [...]

Subjects :: Diagnosis
Care and treatment
Research
Risk factors
Mycobacterium infections -- Risk factors -- Diagnosis -- Research -- Care and treatment
Mycobacterial infections -- Risk factors -- Diagnosis -- Research -- Care and treatment

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