Prevalence of atypical bacterial pathogens in hospitalised adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia in central Greece

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 204-205

  Neocleous, C ^a   Gerogianni, I ^a   Gourgoulianis, K ^a   Petinaki, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; FEMALE; GREECE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898446641     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: 19983646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.129852     Document Type: Letter

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