Pulmonary colonization with Pneumocystis carinii in human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients: Assessing risk with blood CD4+ T cell counts

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1331-1332

  Nevez, Gilles ^a   Raccurt, Christian ^a   Vincent, Pascal ^b   Jounieaux, Vincent ^a   Dei Cas, Eduardo ^b  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION RISK; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; LUNG; PNEUMOCYSTIS; RISK;

EID: 0033504049     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313478     Document Type: Article

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