Trends in legionnaires disease, 1980-1998: Declining mortality and new patterns of diagnosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1039-1046

  Benin, Andrea L ^a,b   Benson, Robert F ^a   Besser, Richard E ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SERODIAGNOSIS; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0036827519     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342903     Document Type: Article

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