Methylobacterium species: an increasingly important opportunistic pathogen.
Methylobacterium species rarely cause human disease. Those isolated from humans are usually found as opportunistic pathogens in patients weakened by an underlying disease process. This report describes a case of Methylobacterium bacteremia in a 35-year-old woman with AIDS, compares the clinical pres...
| Publicado en: | Laboratory Medicine Vol. 29; no. 11; pp. 704 - 711 |
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| Formato: | case study pictorial tables/charts Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
1998 Nov
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