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Body habitus in patients with and without bronchiectasis and non-tuberculous mycobacteria

BACKGROUND: Female gender, tall stature, presence of bronchiectasis are associated with pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections. The biologic relationship between the body habitus and NTM infection is not well defined and the body habitus profile of the patients with NTM and concurre...

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Autores principales: Schweitzer, Michael D., Salamo, Oriana, Campos, Michael, Schraufnagel, Dean E., Sadikot, Ruxana, Mirsaeidi, Mehdi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619759/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28957340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185095