Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in adult patients with AIDS: Treatment strategies and emerging challenges to antimicrobial therapy

Treatments in Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 381-397

  Patel, Naimish ^a   Koziel, Henry ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA GLUCAN; CASPOFUNGIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; ECHINOCANDIN; FOLINIC ACID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; LIVER ENZYME; MEPREDNISONE; NUCLEIC ACID; PENTAMIDINE; PLACEBO; PNEUMOCANDIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISONE; PRIMAQUINE; RIFABUTIN; SORDARIN DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM; TRIMETREXATE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BINDING SITE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHEMOGLOBINEMIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; PRURITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 12744281062     PISSN: 11763450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00151829-200403060-00005     Document Type: Review

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