Risk factors for atypical mycobacterial disease in patients with smear positive pulmonary TB
Non Tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) can cause severe infection in selected groups of patients and is very difficult to be differentiated from TB infection clinically or radiologically leading to miss diagnosis and wrong treatment in these cases, the Aim of the present study is to study risk factors a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2014-07-01
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Series: | Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763814000582 |