Pertussis is under diagnosed in infants hospitalized with lower respiratory tract infection in the pediatric intensive care unit

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Greenberg, David ^a,c   Bamberger, Ellen ^b   Ben Shimol, Shalom ^a   Gershtein, Rosa ^b   Golan, Daniel ^a   Srugo, Isaac ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hospitalization; Infant; Intensive care; Lower respiratory tract infection; Pertussis

Indexed keywords

PERTUSSIS TOXIN;

APNEA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; PEDIATRICS; PERTUSSIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; ISRAEL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 36148998761     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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