Opportunistic infection during treatment with low dose methotrexate

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 258-260

  Lemense, Gregory P ^a,b   Sahn, Steven A ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUCONAZOLE; ISONIAZID; METHOTREXATE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028341809     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.150.1.8025760     Document Type: Article

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