Clinical features predicting failure of pathogen identification in patients with community acquired pneumonia

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 715-720

  Endeman, Henrik ^a,b   Schelfhout, Vanessa ^a   Paul Voorn, G ^a   van Velzen Blad, Heleen ^a   Grutters, Jan C ^a   Biesma, Douwe H ^c  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHARYNX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; URINALYSIS; VIRUS CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CULTURE MEDIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPUTUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50549085112     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802014864     Document Type: Article

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