Legionnaires’ Disease: Isolation of a Bacterium and Demonstration of Its Role in Other Respiratory Disease

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 297, Issue 22, 1977, Pages 1197-1203

  Mcdade, Joseph E ^a   Shepard, Charles C ^a   Fraser, David W ^a   Tsai, Theodore R ^a   Redus, Martha A ^a   Dowdle, Walter R ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0017662282     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197712012972202     Document Type: Article

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