Clinical analysis of cases of empyema due to Streptococcus milleri group

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 484-486

  Kobashi, Yoshihiro ^a   Mouri, Keiji ^a   Yagi, Shinichi ^a   Obase, Yasushi ^a   Oka, Mikio ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHEM; LINCOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COUGHING; DECORTICATION; DYSPNEA; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL DISEASES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI GROUP;

EID: 58149386443     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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