New and emerging etiologies for community-acquired pneumonia with implications for therapy: A prospective multicenter study of 359 cases

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 307-316

  Fang, Guo Dong ^a   Fine, Michael ^a   Orloff, John ^a   Arisumi, David ^b   Yu, Victor L ^a   Kapoor, Wishwa ^a   Thomas Grayston, J ^c   Pin Wang, San ^c   Kohler, Richard ^d   Muder, Robert R ^b   Yee, Ying C ^a   Rihs, John D ^a   Vickers, Richard M ^a  

^a VA Healthcare VISN 4   (United States)

^b MERCY HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIACEAE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 11944258698     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-199009000-00004     Document Type: Article

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