Amoeba-resisting bacteria and ventilator-associated pneumonia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 815-821

  La Scola, Bernard ^a   Boyadjiev, Ioanna ^a,b   Greub, Gilbert ^a   Khamis, Atieh ^a   Martin, Claude ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a,b,c  

^a Unité des Rickettsie   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM; BOSEA MASSILIENSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEGIONELLA; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SEROCONVERSION; SERUM; VENTILATOR;

EID: 0038048225     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0907.030065     Document Type: Article

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