Hospital-acquired legionellosis: Solutions for a preventable infection

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 368-373

  Sabria, Miguel ^a   Yu, Victor L ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b VA Healthcare VISN 4   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMENSALISM; DISINFECTION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0036272487     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(02)00291-8     Document Type: Review

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