Treating legionnaires' disease

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 479-481

  Murdoch, D R ^a  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; NEW ZEALAND; PHLEBITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE;

EID: 0344736647     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2003.00444.x     Document Type: Editorial

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