Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults

Clinical Infectious Diseases - Tập 44 Số Supplement_2 - Trang S27-S72 - 2007
Lionel A. Mandell1, Richard G. Wunderink2, Antonio Anzueto3,4, John G. Bartlett5, G. Douglas Campbell6, Nathan C. Dean7,8, Scott F. Dowell9, Thomas M. File10,11, Daniel M. Musher12,13, Michael S. Niederman14,15, Antoní Torres16, Cynthia G. Whitney9
1McMaster University Medical School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
2Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
3South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio
4University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
5Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
6Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Jackson
7Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah
8University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
9Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
10Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Rootstown
11Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio
12Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
13Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas
14Department of Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York
15State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
16Cap de Servei de Pneumologia i Allèrgia Respiratòria, Institut Clínic del Tòrax, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, CIBER CB06/06/0028, Barcelona, Spain.

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