Chlamydia pneumoniae and acute aortic syndrome: A call for a multi-institutional study

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Cardiac Series

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 68-70

  Bossone, Eduardo ^a   Trimarchi, Santi ^b   Esposito, Gloria ^d   Aliberti, Stefano ^a   Citro, Rodolfo ^c   Allegra, Luigi ^a   Blasi, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^c San Luca Hospital   (Italy)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORBIDITY; AORTA RUPTURE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

AGED; AORTIC RUPTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SYNDROME;

EID: 77954714055     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2008.424     Document Type: Article

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