Role of multidrug-resistant pathogens in health-care-associated pneumonia

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-12

  Falcone, Marco ^a   Venditti, Mario ^a   Corrao, Salvatore ^b   Serra, Pietro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 78650240870     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70301-7     Document Type: Letter

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