A case of Legionella pneumonia linked to a hot spring facility in Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 78-79

  Kurosawa, Hajime ^a   Fujita, Masahiro ^a   Kobatake, Satoshi ^a   Kimura, Hirokazu ^b   Ohshima, Mitsuko ^c   Nagai, Akira ^c   Kaneko, Shingaku ^d   Iwasaki, Yasuki ^d   Kozawa, Kunihisa ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c Gunma Prefectural Government   (Japan)

^d MAEBASHI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEVER; HUMAN; JAPAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRE DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENOTYPE; HOT SPRINGS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; SPUTUM; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 76649117437     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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