Mycoplasma pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly: Diagnostic significance of acute thrombocytosis

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 444-449

  Cunha, Burke A ^a   Pherez, Francisco M ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; OXYGEN; PREDNISONE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG INFLATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZA COMPOUNDS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NEW YORK; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; QUINOLINES; THROMBOCYTOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949182126     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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