Increasing cause of cough among adults

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 280-283

  Boulouffe, Caroline ^a,b   Vanpee, Dominique ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adult clinical presentation; Choking; Laboratory diagnosis; Polymerase chain reaction; Whooping cough

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CASE REPORT; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CLARITHROMYCIN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 44849128234     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2008.01096.x     Document Type: Article

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