Bacteremic community-acquired pneumonia due to Klebsiella pneumoniae: Clinical and microbiological characteristics in Taiwan, 2001-2008

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lin, Yi Tsung ^a,b   Jeng, Yuan Yu ^a   Chen, Te Li ^a,b   Fung, Chang Phone ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; ALBUMIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RMPA GENE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEROTYPING; SPUTUM VISCOSITY; TAIWAN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77958134727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-307     Document Type: Article

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