Nursing home - Acquired pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1205-1211

  Mylotte, Joseph M ^a  

^a ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GATIFLOXACIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DEMENTIA; FEEDING APPARATUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORTALITY; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STROKE; SWALLOWING; VACCINATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037111539     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/344281     Document Type: Article

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