Community-acquired pneumonia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 333, Issue 24, 1995, Pages 1618-1624

  Bartlett, John G ^a   Mundy, Linda M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMANTADINE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMINOPENICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; NAFCILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; RIMANTADINE; TETRACYCLINE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; GRAM STAINING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MORTALITY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTIBIOTICS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0029643776     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199512143332408     Document Type: Review

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