Role of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae as Causative Agents of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Hospitalised Children and Adolescents

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 742-745

  Baer, G ^a   Engelcke, G ^a   Abele Horn, M ^b   Schaad, U B ^a   Heininger, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SUPERINFECTION; SWITZERLAND;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0347623109     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-003-1037-9     Document Type: Article

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