Naso- and oropharyngeal potential respiratory pathogens in adults with nonpneumonic lower respiratory tract infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-151

  Lieberman, David ^a   Shimoni, Avi ^a   Shleyfer, Elena ^a   Castel, Hana ^a   Terry, Andrei ^a   Harman Boehm, Ilana ^a   Peled, Nechama ^a   Lieberman, Devora ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adults; Community acquired pneumonia; H. influenzae; Lower respiratory tract infection; M. catarrhalis; Nasopharyngeal; Oropharyngeal; S. pneumoniae; Sampling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FEMALE; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MOUTH FLORA; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34249828664     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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