Probable mother to infant transmission of Pneumocystis jiroveci from an HIV-infected woman to her HIV-uninfected infant [2]

AIDS

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1548-1549

  McNally, Lisa M ^a,b   Jeena, Prakash M ^b   Lalloo, Umesh ^b   Nyamande, Kennedy ^b   Gajee, Kavitha ^b   Willem Sturm, A ^b   Goldblatf, David ^a   Tomkins, Andrew M ^a   Coovadia, Hoosen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; NEVIRAPINE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; HEART RATE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LETTER; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THRUSH;

EID: 25844432050     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aids.0000183941.67730.3a     Document Type: Letter

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