Nocardiosis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection;Nocardiosis en pacientes infectados por el VIH

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 419-423

  Biscione, Fernando ^a   Cecchini, Diego ^a,b   Ambrosioni, Juan ^a   Bianchi, Mario ^a   Corti, Marcelo ^a   Benetucci, Jorge ^a  

^a HOSPITAL F J MUÑIZ   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

AIDS; HIV; Nocardia asteroides; Nocardiosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MORTALITY; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERODIAGNOSIS; SMOKING; SPUTUM CULTURE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 25844511190     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13078801     Document Type: Article

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