Management of Community-Acquired Respiratory Tract Infections
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Treatment of community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections in adults.
Community-acquired lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) is a common cause of acute illness in adults. The spectrum of disease ranges from a mild mucosal colonisation or infection, acute bronchitis or acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis/chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AE-CB/COPD), to an overwhelming parenchymal infection with the patient presenting with severe community-acquired ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1537-6591,1058-4838
DOI: 10.1086/421350