Antibiotic treatment of patients with pneumonia and pleural effusion

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 230-234

  Teixeira, Lisete Ribeiro ^a   Villarino, Maria Antonia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032106007     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00063198-199807000-00009     Document Type: Article

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