Macrolides and pneumonia

Thorax

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 404-405

  Brown, Jeremy Stuart ^a   Hill, Adam T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; MACROLIDE;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INOTROPISM; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84876245433     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-202425     Document Type: Editorial

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