Community-acquired pneumonia in patients from two different hospitals;Neumonia adquirida en la comunidad en dos poblaciones hospitalarias

Medicina

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-8

  Caberlotto, Oscar J ^a   Cadario, Maria E ^b   Garay, Jose E ^a   Copacastro, Carlos A ^c   Cabot, Asuncion ^c   Savy, Vilma L ^b  

^a Hospital Zonal de Agudos y Cronicos Dr Antonio A Cetrangolo   (Argentina)

^b Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^c Hospital Manuel Belgrano   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Comorbidities; Etiology; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHLAMYDIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LEGIONELLA; LUNG FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARGENTINA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGENTINA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037978131     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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