Etiology and management of community-acquired pneumonia in asia

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 157-162

  Matsushima, Toshiharu ^a   Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   File Jr , Thomas M ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTIAM; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; JAPAN; KOREA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 0036212888     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001432-200204000-00010     Document Type: Review

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