Legionnaires' disease at a Dutch flower show: Prognostic factors and impact of therapy

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1448-1454

  Lettinga, Kamilla D ^a   Verbon, Annelies ^a   Weverling, Gerrit Jan ^a   Schellekens, Joop F P ^b   Den Boer, Jeroen W ^b,c   Yzerman, Ed P F ^d   Prins, Jacobus ^e   Boersma, Wim G ^f   Van Ketel, Ruud J ^a   Prins, Jan M ^a   Speelman, Peter ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c Munic Hlth Serv Zuid Kennemerland   (Netherlands)

^d Laboratory of Public Health Haarlem   (Netherlands)

^e Westfries Gasthuis   (Netherlands)

^f Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036918630     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0812.020035     Document Type: Article

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