Tubulointerstitial nephritis associated with Legionnaires' disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 150-153

  Nishitarumizu, Kazutaka ^c   Tokuda, Yasuharu ^a   Uehara, Hajime ^a   Taira, Masaaki ^b   Taira, Keiki ^b  

^a Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Miyako Hospital   (Japan)

^c Iwao Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Renal biopsy

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; STEROID;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MALE; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0034071003     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.150     Document Type: Article

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