Pneumonia in the community caused by multidrug-resistant organisms: Keep working on probabilistic scores

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1519-1520

  Aliberti, Stefano ^a,b   Zanaboni, Anna Maria ^c   Blasi, Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Clinica Pneumologica   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84860236414     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis260     Document Type: Letter

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