Community‐Acquired Pneumonia in the Elderly
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- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 31 (4) , 1066-1078
- https://doi.org/10.1086/318124
Abstract
Pneumonia in the elderly is a common and serious problem with a clinical presentation that can differ from that in younger patients. Older patients wKeywords
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