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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Main Authors: Hany Shaarawy, Abeer T. Elhawary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-07-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763814000582