Clinical characteristics of pneumonia caused by penicillin resistant and sensitive Streptococcus pneumoniae in Japan

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1029-1033

  Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a   Otsu, Yoshiko ^a   Ohno, Hideaki ^a   Higashiyama, Yasuhito ^a   Miyazaki, Yoshitsugu ^a   Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Kadota, Jun Ichi ^a   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Univ Grad Sch Med Sci ^*

Author keywords

COPD; Penicillin resistance; Risk factor; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 10244222851     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.1029     Document Type: Review

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