Death in the white house: President William Henry Harrison's atypical pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 990-995

  McHugh, Jane ^a   MacKowiak, Philip A ^b  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Enteric fever; Pneumonia; President Harrison; Typhoid

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM OXIDE; MERCUROUS CHLORIDE; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; NEURALGIA; POLYGALA SENEGA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT LUNG; SEPTIC SHOCK; TERMINAL ILEUM; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; AGED; CASE REPORT; FATALITY; HISTORY; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929940795     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu470     Document Type: Article

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