Children with pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia and acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure admitted to a PICU, Durban, South Africa

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 545-

  Jeena, P M ^a   Bobat, B ^a   Thula, S A ^a   Adhikari, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

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Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRUS INFECTION; CHILD; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STANDARD; SURVIVAL;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 45549105898     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.105890     Document Type: Letter

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