Community acquired pneumonia: Assessment and treatment

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-286

  Patterson, Caroline M ^a   Loebinger, Michael R ^b,c  

^a NW Thames Rotation ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; FOLLOW UP; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LUNG ABSCESS; MICROBIOLOGY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARAPNEUMONIC EFFUSION; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84862875940     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-3-283     Document Type: Short Survey

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