Virus detection in patients with severe pneumonia: Still more questions than answers?

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 301-302

  Luyt, Charles Edouard ^a   Kaiser, Laurent ^b  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; BOCAVIRUS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CORONAVIRUS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RHINOVIRUS; SCREENING; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84865301037     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201206-1119ED     Document Type: Editorial

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