Severe Q fever community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) mimicking Legionnaires' disease: Clinical significance of cold agglutinins, anti-smooth muscle antibodies and thrombocytosis

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 354-362

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Nausheen, Sara ^a   Busch, Lori ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; COLD AGGLUTININ; FERRITIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEVOFLOXACIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE ANTIBODY; SODIUM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CRYOGLOBULINS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; Q FEVER; THROMBOCYTOSIS;

EID: 67649637483     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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