Bordetella pertussis in adult pneumonia patients [6]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 639-641

  Beynon, Kirsten A ^a   Young, Sheryl A ^a   Laing, Richard T R ^b   Harrison, Timothy G ^c   Anderson, Trevor P ^a   Murdoch, David R ^a,b  

^a CANTERBURY HEALTH LABORATORIES   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PERTUSSIS TOXIN;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL SUPERINFECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 16244408313     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1104.040822     Document Type: Letter

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