Ineffectiveness of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis and the importance of bacterial and viral coinfections in African children with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1120-1126

  Madhi, Shabir A ^a,b   Cutland, Clare ^a,b   Ismail, Kuraisha ^a   O'Reilly, Cathryn ^a   Mancha, Archana ^a   Klugman, Keith P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

AFRICA; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0036827649     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343049     Document Type: Article

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