Dual pulmonary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Pneumocystis carinii in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 289-294

  Orlovic, D ^a   Kularatne, R ^a   Ferraz, V ^a   Smego R A , Jr ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0035245319     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318475     Document Type: Article

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