Pneumocystis infection: Seeing beyond the tip of the iceberg

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-356

  Calderón, Enrique J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCIDENCE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANDEMIC; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749119696     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649870     Document Type: Note

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