Cigarette Smoking and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
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- 9 March 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 342 (10) , 681-689
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm200003093421002
Abstract
Approximately half of otherwise healthy adults with invasive pneumococcal disease are cigarette smokers. We conducted a population-based case–control study to assess the importance of cigarette smoking and other factors as risk factors for pneumococcal infections.Keywords
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