Microbiology of sinusitis

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 90-100

  Brook, Itzhak ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobes; Bacteria; Sinusitis; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ACUTE SINUSITIS; ADULT DISEASE; ALTERNARIA; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BLASTOMYCOSIS DERMATITIDES; CANDIDA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CURVULARIA; CURVULARIA LUNATA; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERICELLA; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXSEROHILUM; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; FUNGUS; FUSOBACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA VIRUS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE POLYP; NOSOCOMIAL RHINOSINUSITIS; PAECILOMYCES; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIUM MELINII; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS ANAEROBIUS; PETRIELLIDIUM BOYDII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RHINOSINUSITIS; RHINOVIRUS; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE; SINUSITIS; SMOKING; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VACCINATION; VIRAL SINUSITIS; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SINUSITIS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 79960647591     PISSN: 15463222     EISSN: 19435665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1513/pats.201006-038RN     Document Type: Conference Paper

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