Clinico-pathological study of atypical pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia: A prospective study

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 199-205

  Zaki, Maysaa El Sayed ^a   Goda, Tarek ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

CAP; Legionella; Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; BLOOD; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COXIELLA BURNETII; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; LEGIONELLA; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 67649494714     PISSN: 20366590     EISSN: 19722680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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