Community-acquired pneumonia complications in a patient with hereditary glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

Pneumonologia i Alergologia Polska

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 283-288

  Nowiński, Adam ^a,c   Jabłońska Skwiecińska, Ewa ^b   Wojda, Emil ^a   Bieleń, Przemysław ^a   Ptak, Jakub ^a   Śliwiński, Paweł ^b   Górecka, Dorota ^a  

^a NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

^c INSTYTUT GRU LICY I CHORÓB P UC   (Poland)

Author keywords

G6PD deficiency; Pneumonia; Pneumonia complications

Indexed keywords

EID: 36349035007     PISSN: 08677077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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