Infectious Emergencies in the Elderly

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 433-448

  Adedipe, Adeyinka ^a   Lowenstein, Robert ^a  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMANTADINE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FAMCICLOVIR; GATIFLOXACIN; INFLUENZA VACCINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; OSELTAMIVIR; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; STEROID; UNINDEXED DRUG; VALACICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN; ZANAMIVIR;

AGED; AGING; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROTOXICITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 33645913832     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2006.01.006     Document Type: Review

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