Profile of community- and hospital- acquired pneumonia cases admitted to Basra General Hospital, Iraq

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-242

  Al Ghizawi, G J ^a   Al Sulami, A A ^a   Al Taher, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAQ; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PROTEUS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRAQ; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROTEUS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34447273807     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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