Aetiological agents, interleukin-6, interleukin-8 and CRP concentrations in children with community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 285-291

  Tumgor, Gokhan ^b   Celik, Umit ^a   Alabaz, Derya ^a   Cetiner, Salih ^a   Yaman, Akgun ^a   Yildizdas, Dincer ^a   Alhan, Emre ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ETIOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTIDE; PNEUMONIA; PROTEIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34447323020     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X152809     Document Type: Article

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