Acute Q fever pneumonia: A review of 80 hospitalized patients

Chest

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 808-813

  Caron, Fabrice ^a   Meurice, Jean Claude ^a,c   Ingrand, Pierre ^d   Bourgoin, Anne ^b   Masson, Philippe ^a   Roblot, Pascal ^c   Patte, Françoise ^a  

^a Service de Pneumologie

^b Laboratoire de Microbiologie B

^c POITIERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^d U de Biostatistiques et Info Med   (France)

Author keywords

Complement fixation test; Coxiella burnetii; Pneumonia; Q fever

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ERYTHROMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST; COXIELLA BURNETII; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LIVER FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031662922     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.3.808     Document Type: Article

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