Health Impacts of Environmental Mycobacteria
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Health impacts of environmental mycobacteria.
Environmental mycobacteria are emerging pathogens causing opportunistic infections in humans and animals. The health impacts of human-mycobacterial interactions are complex and likely much broader than currently recognized. Environmental mycobacteria preferentially survive chlorination in municipal water, using it as a vector to infect humans. Widespread chlorination of water has likely selecte...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.17.1.98-106.2004