Retrospective study of 668 cultures for mycobacteria in a reference hospital for AIDS in Southern Brazil

Although AIDS patients in other countries are frequently diagnosed as having atypical mycobacterial infection, in Southern Brazil there is a clinical impression that Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the rule rather than the exception. We made a retrospective review of cultures for mycobacteria at our h...

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Main Authors: Alessandro Comarú Pasqualotto, Daniela Dornelles Rosa, Maria do Carmo Fontoura Pereira, Roberto L. Targa-Ferreira, Breno Riegel Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702003000200005&lng=en&tlng=en