Community-acquired pneumonia

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Pneumonia is the sixth leading cause of death in adults - about 4 million adults develop pneumonia each year in the US. This book is designed to provide new information about pneumonia and identify critical research questions that will come to the fore as we enter the 21st century.

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Title Statements

Full title :Community-acquired pneumonia / edited by Thomas J. Marrie.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2001.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxvii, 925 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0306468344, 9780306468346, 6610042985, 9786610042982
oclc:ocm52210401
LC Classification:RC771
Dewey Decimal:616.2/41

Preliminaries; Contents; 1. The Captain of the Men of Death: The History of Pneumonia; 2. Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 3. Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 4. Laboratory Diagnosis of Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 5. PCR Techniques in the Diagnosis of Pneumonia Due to Chlamydia pneumoniae, Legionella; 6. Imaging Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 7. The Pathology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 8. Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 9. Nursing Home-Acquired Pneumonia; 10. Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia; 11. Pathophysiology of Pneumonia and the Clinical Consequences.