Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus community-acquired pneumonia during the 2006-2007 influenza season

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1655-

  Kallen, Alexander J ^a   Hageman, Jeffrey ^a   Gorwitz, Rachel ^a   Beekmann, Susan E ^b   Polgreen, Philip M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Infectious Diseases Society of America Emerging Infections Network   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; LINEZOLID; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MONOTHERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; INCIDENCE; NOTE; SEASON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SEASONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 40449101358     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/523721     Document Type: Letter

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