The continuing utility of bronchoalveolar lavage to diagnose opportunistic infection in AIDS patients

The American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 515-522

  Baughman, Robert P ^a   Dohn, Michael N ^a   Frame, Peter T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028153329     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(94)90346-8     Document Type: Article

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