Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV infected patients from South Africa

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 80-84

  Mahomed, A G ^a   Murray, J ^a,b   Klempman, S ^a,b   Richards, G ^a   Feldman, C ^a   Levy, N T ^a   Smith, C ^a   Kallenbach, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b National Centre for Occupational Health   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM SMEAR; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM;

SOUTH AFRICA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 0032749017     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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