Publications
| community-acquired bacterial pneumonia requiring admission to hospital. | patients who develop bacterial pneumonia in the community often require admission to acute-care hospitals. knowledge of the incidence of pneumonia due to different pathogens that are brought into an institution from the community may play a role in determining the patterns of infecting organisms responsible for hospital-acquired pneumonia. for 1 year, we prospectively reviewed the records of patients admitted to our 1000-bed community hospital with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (cabp). ... | 1983 | 6349427 |
| a recurrent outbreak of nosocomial legionnaires' disease detected by urinary antigen testing: evidence for long-term colonization of a hospital plumbing system. | in 1994, a hospital reported an increase in nosocomial legionnaires' disease after implementing use of a rapid urinary antigen test for legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 (lp-1). this hospital was the site of a previous nosocomial legionnaires' disease outbreak during 1980 to 1982. | 1998 | 9872526 |