Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a patient without a predisposing illness: Case report and review

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 618-621

  Al Soub, Hussam ^a   Taha, R Y ^a   El Deeb, Y ^a   Almaslamani, M ^a   Al Khuwaiter, J Y ^a  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLONAZEPAM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUDROCORTISONE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; MEROPENEM; PENTAMIDINE; RISPERIDONE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MANIA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 4544305484     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540410017608     Document Type: Article

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