Diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with polymerase chain reaction: A blinded comparison to standard methods

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 141-145

  Torres, Juan ^a   Goldman, Mitchell ^a   Wheat, L Joseph ^a,b   Tang, Xing ^a   Bartlett, Marilyn S ^a   Smith, James W ^a   Allen, Stephen D ^a   Lee, Chao Hung ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG LAVAGE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VIRUS DIAGNOSIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0033969246     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313584     Document Type: Article

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