Legionnaires’ Disease: Description of an Epidemic of Pneumonia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 297, Issue 22, 1977, Pages 1189-1197

  Fraser, David W ^a   Tsai, Theodore R ^a   Orenstein, Walter ^a   Parkin, William E ^a   Beecham, H James ^a   Sharrar, Robert G ^a   Harris, John ^a   Mallison, George F ^a   Martin, Stanley M ^a   Mcdade, Joseph E ^a   Shepard, Charles C ^a   Brachman, Philip S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0017726281     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197712012972201     Document Type: Article

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