Q Fever Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Patient With Crohn's Disease on Immunosuppressive Therapy

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 300-303

  Nausheen, Sara ^a   Cunha, Burke A ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEVOFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CHILL; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COUGHING; CROHN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MYALGIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; ORNITHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPLENOMEGALY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TULAREMIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROHN DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFLOXACIN; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; Q FEVER;

EID: 34447102601     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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