Editorial: Geography and the aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia

Respirology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1068-1071

  Brown, Jeremy S ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; GEOGRAPHY; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ASIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EUROPE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PREVALENCE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ASIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EUROPE; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREVALENCE;

EID: 70350464262     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01641.x     Document Type: Editorial

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