Sick as a dog

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 372, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 1845-1850

  Foster, Clayton L ^a   Mould, Kara ^a   Reynolds, Paul ^b   Simonian, Philip L ^a   Erlandson, Kristine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DETERIORATION; DIAPHORESIS; DOG; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEVER; GOAT MILK; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPONATREMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MYALGIA; NEAR DROWNING; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS LUTEOLA; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DOGS; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MYALGIA; PLAGUE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84928978995     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcps1411346     Document Type: Article

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