Recommendations on the diagnosis of nosocomial pneumonia;Empfehlungen zur Diagnostik der nosokomialen Pneumonie

Pneumologie

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 499-510

  Ewig, S ^a   Dalhoff, K ^b   Lorenz, J ^b   Mauch, H ^b   Schaberg, T ^b   Ukena, D ^b   Welte, T ^b   Wilkens, H ^b   Witt, Ch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; CROSS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GERMANY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PULMONOLOGY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERMANY; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE (SPECIALTY); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 0033203341     PISSN: 09348387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-1999-9044     Document Type: Review

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