Community-acquired pneumonia: Considerations on ambulatory management;Pneumonies acquises a domicile: Considerations sur la prise en charge ambulatoire

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 127, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 528-534

  Zanetti, G ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MACROLIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0030965648     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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