Legionnaires' Disease Diagnosed by Bronchoalveolar Lavage

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 153-156

  Chiba, Yuko ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Nagatomo, Akira ^a   Kunikane, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Koshiro ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA MUNICIPAL CITIZEN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL); Legionnaires' disease; Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TIME; TRAVEL;

ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 0031990936     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.153     Document Type: Article

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