The diagnosis and treatment challenges in nosocomial pneumonia

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 131-139

  Baughman, Robert P ^a   Tapson, Victor ^b   McIvor, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

HUMANS; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0033007921     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00161-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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