Pneumocystosis in Venezuelan patients: Epidemiology and diagnosis (2001-2006);Neumocistosis en pacientes venezolanos: Diagnóstico y epidemiología (2001-2006)

Revista Iberoamericana de Micologia

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 226-231

  Panizo, María Mercedes ^a   Reviákina, Vera ^a   Navas, Trina ^b   Casanova, Karina ^b   Sáez, Alejandro ^b   Guevara, Rafael Napoleón ^c,d   Cáceres, Ana María ^d   Vera, Raúl ^d   Sucre, Carlos ^d   Arbona, Esther ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Hospital General del Oeste   (Venezuela)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE CARACAS   (Venezuela)

^d Instituto Medico La Floresta   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cancer; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Direct immunofluorescence; Pneumocystosis

Indexed keywords

AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VENEZUELA; ADULT; AGED; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENEZUELA;

EID: 61449515278     PISSN: 11301406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1130-1406(08)70054-8     Document Type: Article

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