Clinical predictors for Legionella in patients presenting with community-acquired pneumonia to the emergency department

BACKGROUND: Legionella species cause severe forms of pneumonia with high mortality and complication rates. Accurate clinical predictors to assess the likelihood of Legionella community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in patients presenting to the emergency department are lacking. METHODS: We retrospectivel...

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Autores principales: Fiumefreddo, Rico, Zaborsky, Roya, Haeuptle, Jeannine, Christ-Crain, Mirjam, Trampuz, Andrej, Steffen, Ingrid, Frei, Reno, Müller, Beat, Schuetz, Philipp
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19152698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-9-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19152698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-9-4

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