Outbreak of Streptococcus Pneumoniae serotype 3 pneumonia in extremely elderly people in a nursing home unit in Kanagawa, Japan, 2013

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1197-1198

  Kuroki, Toshiro ^a   Ishida, Masayuki ^b,c   Suzuki, Motoi ^b   Furukawa, Ichiro ^a   Ohya, Hitomi ^a   Watanabe, Yuko ^a   Konnai, Minori ^d   Aihara, Yukoh ^d   Chang, Bin ^e   Ariyoshi, Koya ^b   Oishi, Kazunori ^e   Ohnishi, Makoto ^e   Morimoto, Konosuke ^b  

^a KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Samukawa Hospital   (Japan)

^d Chigasaki Public Health and Welfare Center   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84902357897     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12863     Document Type: Letter

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