Characteristics of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients during the early phase after the 2011 great east japan earthquake pneumonia as a signifi cant reason for hospital care

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Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-356

  Aoyagi, Tetsuji ^a   Yamada, Mitsuhiro ^b   Kunishima, Hiroyuki ^b   Tokuda, Koichi ^a   Yano, Hisakazu ^a   Ishibashi, Noriomi ^a   Hatta, Masumitsu ^a   Endo, Shiro ^a   Arai, Kazuaki ^a   Inomata, Shinya ^a   Gu, Yoshiaki ^b   Kanamori, Hajime ^a   Kitagawa, Miho ^a   Hirakata, Yoichi ^a   Kaku, Mitsuo ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Department of Regional Cooperation for Infectious Diseases ^*  (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TETANUS; TSUNAMI; URINE;

EID: 84874063831     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.11-3298     Document Type: Article

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