Characteristics of hospitalized acute Q fever patients during a large epidemic, the Netherlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Wielders, Cornelia C H ^a,b   Wuister, Annemarie M H ^b,c   De Visser, Veerle L ^a   De Jager Leclercq, Monique G ^c   Groot, Cornelis A R ^c   Dijkstra, Frederika ^b   Van Gageldonk Lafeber, Arianne B ^b   Van Leuken, Jeroen P G ^b,d   Wever, Peter C ^a   Van Der Hoek, Wim ^b   Schneeberger, Peter M ^a,b  

^a JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c BERNHOVEN HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATITIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897505003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091764     Document Type: Article

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