Prolonged efficiency of secondary prophylaxis with colistin aerosols for respiratory infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 641-643

  Zylberberg, Hervé ^a   Vargaftig, Jacques ^a   Barbieux, Caroline ^a   Pertuiset, Nathalie ^a   Rothschild, Chantal ^a   Viard, Jean Paul ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN; PENTAMIDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECURRENCE RISK; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS;

EID: 0029832877     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.3.641     Document Type: Article

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