Etiology and outcome of community-acquired lung abscess

Respiration

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 98-105

  Takayanagi, Noboru ^a   Kagiyama, Naho ^a   Ishiguro, Takashi ^a   Tokunaga, Daidou ^a   Sugita, Yutaka ^a  

^a Saitama Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired lung abscess; Etiology; Percutaneous ultrasonography guided transthoracic needle aspiration; Protected specimen brush

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; ANAEROBE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED LUNG ABSCESS; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; GEMELLA; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HUMAN; JAPANESE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; TAIWAN; TRANSTHORACIC ASPIRATION; TREATMENT DURATION; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; COMPLICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; BACTERIA, AEROBIC; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 77954817862     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000312404     Document Type: Article

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