Legionnaires' disease and pneumonia: Beware the temptation to underestimate this "exotic" cause of infection

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 135-147

  Akbas, Efsun ^a   Yu, Victor L ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; DRINKING WATER; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE; PNEUMONIA; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0035020798     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2001.05.933     Document Type: Article

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