Chlamydia pneumoniae as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized patients in Berlin

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 958-964

  Steinhoff, Dagmar ^b   Lode, Hartmut ^a   Ruckdeschel, Gotthard ^b   Heidrich, Björn ^b   Rolfs, Arndt ^b   Fehrenbach, Franz J ^b   Mauch, Harald ^b   Hoffken, Gert ^b   Wagner, Jutta ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEGIONELLA; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029767388     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.6.958     Document Type: Article

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