Severe community-acquired pneumonia: A possible role for chlamydia pneumoniae

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 61-65

  Cosentini, Roberto ^a   Blasi, Francesco ^a   Raccanelli, Rita ^a   Rossi, Simona ^a   Arosio, Cristina ^a   Tarsia, Paolo ^a   Randazzo, Antonio ^a   Allegro, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlamydia pneumoniae; Pneumonia; Severe

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; AMBIENT AIR; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 0029968077     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196519     Document Type: Article

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