Healthcare-associated pneumonia: Can we salvage anything from the wreckage?

Respirology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 8-9

  Waterer, Grant W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

healthcare associated; pneumonia; Pseudomonas; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BLOOD CULTURE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM CULTURE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84951092589     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/resp.12695     Document Type: Editorial

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