Diagnosis of atypical pathogens in patients hospitalized with community-acquired respiratory infection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 269-273

  Schneeberger, Peter M ^a   Dorigo Zetsma, J Wendeline ^b   van der Zee, Anneke ^c   van Bon, Marion ^d   van Opstal, Jean Louis ^a  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c CPRLab   (Netherlands)

^d Department of Public Health ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHILD; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEROLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 2642574954     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540410020127     Document Type: Article

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