Clinical and microbiological characteristics of community-acquired thoracic empyema or complicated parapneumonic effusion caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in Taiwan

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1003-1010

  Lin, Y T ^a   Chen, T L ^a,b   Siu, L K ^c   Hsu, S F ^a   Fung, C P ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEROTYPING; TAIWAN;

EID: 77955466098     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-010-0961-8     Document Type: Article

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