Recurrent Legionella longbeachae pneumonia associated with re-exposure to potting soil?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 856-857

  Dewit, D ^a   Guy, D ^a   Foster, K ^a  

^a GOSFORD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; DRUG COMBINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LETTER; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLOSIS; LEUKEMIA, HAIRY CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RECURRENCE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0030338043     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1996.tb00644.x     Document Type: Article

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