Bacteria and COPD exacerbations redux [4] (multiple letters)

Chest

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 663-666

  Hirschmann, Jan V ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFPROZIL; CEFRADINE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE VACCINE; TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG LAVAGE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BRONCHI; BRONCHITIS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035110323     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.119.2.663     Document Type: Letter

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