Clinical characteristics of 8 sporadic cases community-acquired Legionella pneumonia in advanced age

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 461-466

  Sugihara, Eiichiro ^a   Dambara, Takashi ^a   Aiba, Miyoji ^b   Okamoto, Masaki ^c   Yonemitsu, Junko ^c   Sonobe, Satoshi ^c   Koga, Hideyuki ^c   Inui, Akihiro ^a   Hada, Naoko ^a   Matsumoto, Naomi ^a   Goto, Yoko ^a   Naito, Toshio ^a   Isonuma, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashida, Yasuo ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO TOKYO KOTO GERIATRIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c National Kyushu Respiratory Clinical and Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Elderly person; Legionella pneumonia; Sporadic cases

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFOZOPRAN; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN TOSILATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINE LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34247395380     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6084     Document Type: Article

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