Unusual gram positive rods, causing pneumonia;Ungewöhnliche grampositive stäbchenbakterien als auslöser von pneumonien

Pneumologie

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 259-267

  Bar W ^a   Wakili, J ^a   Marquez De Bar G ^a   Steinhauer, H ^b   Schweisfurth, H ^a  

^a CARL THIEM KLINIKUM   (Germany)

^b II Medizinische Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMADURA MADURAE; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE RODS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NOCARDIA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 0038807889     PISSN: 09348387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-39366     Document Type: Article

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