Clinical features of Q fever pneumonia

Respirology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 278-282

  Okimoto, Niro ^a   Asaoka, Naoko ^a   Osaki, Kohichi ^a   Kurihara, Takeyuki ^a   Yamato, Kenji ^a   Sunagawa, Takako ^a   Fujita, Kazue ^a   Ohba, Hideo ^a   Nakamura, Junichi ^a   Nakada, Keiichi ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical pneumonia; Bacterial pneumonia; Coxiella burnetti; Q fever pneumonia

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; MINOCYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; Q FEVER;

EID: 3142707913     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2004.00586.x     Document Type: Article

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