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

Fiumefreddo, Rico; Zaborsky, Roya; Haeuptle, Jeannine; Christ-Crain, Mirjam; Trampuz, Andrej; Steffen, Ingrid; Frei, Reno; Müller, Beat; Schuetz, Philipp

Fiumefreddo, Rico; Zaborsky, Roya; Haeuptle, Jeannine; Christ-Crain, Mirjam; Trampuz, Andrej; Steffen, Ingrid; Frei, Reno; Müller, Beat; Schuetz, Philipp.

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Fiumefreddo R; Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Aarau, Tellstrasse, CH-5001 Aarau, Switzerland. R.Fiumefreddo@stud.unibas.ch

BMC Pulm Med ; 9: 4, 2009 Jan 19.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19152698

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Community-Acquired Infections/blood; Community-Acquired Infections/diagnosis; Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data; Legionnaires' Disease/blood; Legionnaires' Disease/diagnosis; Pneumonia/blood; Pneumonia/diagnosis; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Body Temperature/physiology; C-Reactive Protein/metabolism; Female; Humans; L-Lactate Dehydrogenase/blood; Legionella pneumophila; Logistic Models; Male; Middle Aged; Platelet Count; Predictive Value of Tests; ROC Curve; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Sodium/blood; Sputum/microbiology

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pneumonia / Legionnaires' Disease / Community-Acquired Infections / Emergency Service, Hospital Type of study: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged Language: En Journal: BMC Pulm Med Year: 2009 Type: Article Affiliation country: Switzerland

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