Killer respiratory tract infections: Time to turn the tide

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 173-174

  Zumla, Alimuddin ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84859211226     PISSN: 10705287     EISSN: 15316971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCP.0b013e328351f7d8     Document Type: Editorial

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