Etiology of severe community-acquired pneumonia during the 2013 Hajj-part of the MERS-CoV surveillance program

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue , 2014, Pages 186-190

  Memish, Ziad A ^a,b   Almasri, Malak ^a   Turkestani, Abdulhafeez ^a   Al Shangiti, Ali M ^a   Yezli, Saber ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Haemophilus influenzae; Hajj; MERS CoV; Moraxella catarrhalis; Pneumonia; Streptococcus pneumoniae; Viruses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CORONAVIRUS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INDIA; INDONESIA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; MALE; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; SAUDI ARABIA; SPUTUM; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAUDI ARABIA; SPUTUM;

EID: 84903827112     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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