Community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly: Association of mortality with lack of fever and leukocytosis

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 296-298

  Ahkee, Sunket ^a   Srinath, Latha ^a   Ramirez, Julio ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0030968499     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-199703000-00006     Document Type: Article

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