Potential importance of Legionella species as etiologies in community acquired pneumonia (CAP)

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 79-82

  McNally, C ^a   Hackman, B ^a   Fields, B S ^b   Plouffe, J F ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA LONGBEACHAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLOSIS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0033772393     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(00)00181-4     Document Type: Article

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