Epidemiological studies on pulmonary pathogens in HIV-positive and -negative subjects with or without community-acquired pneumonia with special emphasis on Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 337-341

  Shankar, Esaki Muthu ^a,b   Kumarasamy, Nagalingeswaran ^b   Vignesh, Ramachandran ^b   Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu ^b   Solomon, Sunil Suhas ^b   Murugavel, Kailapuri Gangatharan ^b   Saravanan, Shanmugam ^b   Velu, Vijayakumar ^a   Farooq, Shukkur Muhammed ^c   Hayath, Kownhar ^a   Muthu+, Sundaram ^b   Solomon, Suniti ^b   Rao, Usha Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

^b YRG CENTRE FOR AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (India)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELATIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GROWTH INHIBITION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PREVALENCE; RASH; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

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