Pneumocystis carinii genotypes and severity of pneumonia

Lancet

Volumn 353, Issue 9169, 1999, Pages 2039-2040

  Miller, Robert F ^a   Wakefield, Ann E ^a  

^a Dept of Sexually Transmitted Dis   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; OPERON; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033549292     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)01690-6     Document Type: Article

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