Screening Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in non-HIV-infected immunocompromised patients using polymerase chain reaction

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 396-401

  Jiancheng, Wang ^a   Minjun, Huang ^a   Yi jun, An ^a   Lan, Sun ^a   Zengzhu, Guo ^a   Jianrong, Su ^a   Xixiong, Kang ^b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HIV; Pneumocystis carinii; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENTAMIDINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MASS SCREENING; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 67650751324     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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