Serological hint suggesting that Parachlamydiaceae are agents of pneumonia in polytraumatized intensive care patients

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 990, Issue , 2003, Pages 311-319

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

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Intensive care patients; Parachlamydiaceae; Pneumonia; Serology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD DONOR; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

CHLAMYDIACEAE; PARACHLAMYDIA; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE;

EID: 0038341183     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07381.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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