Radiological and etiological aspects of severe pediatric pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 829-830

  Don, Massimiliano ^a   Canciani, Mario ^b  

^a Sant'Antonio General Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PNEUMOLYSIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ASSAY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFLUENZA VIRUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LETTER; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; NASOPHARYNX; NONHUMAN; PLEURA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 79960382716     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.21439     Document Type: Letter

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