Legionnaires' disease in the Paris area: Epidemiology and mortality

Presse Medicale

Volumn 25, Issue 36, 1996, Pages 1786-1788

  Nauciel, C ^a,b   Guilhin, P ^a   Matsiota Bernard, P ^a   Ronco, E ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Microbiologie   (France)

^b RAYMOND POINCARÉ HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; CROSS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030599467     PISSN: 07554982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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