Pneumocystis carinii and trichosporon beigelii pneumonia following allogeneic haemopoeitic stem cell transplantation

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-82

  Raza, Shahid ^a   Ahmed, Parvez ^a   Khan, Badshah ^a   Hashmi, Khalilullah ^a   Mirza, Sajjad ^b   Abbasi, Shahid Ahmed ^b   Anwar, Masood ^b   Hussain, Iftikhar ^a   Altaf, Chaudhry ^b   Kamal, Muhammad Khalid ^a  

^a National Institute of Heart Diseases National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MEROPENEM; TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; LUNG LAVAGE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; SPONTANEOUS PNEUMOTHORAX; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICHOSPORON BEIGELII;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOTHORAX; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 33646253443     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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