Legionellainfektioner: Diagnostiske og profylaktiske udfordringer

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 417-419

  Bangsborg, Jette M ^a   Uldum, Søren A ^a  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; SEROTYPING;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONELLOSIS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0035931729     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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