Pneumocystis colonization in older adults and diagnostic yield of single versus paired noninvasive respiratory sampling

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Vargas, Sergio L ^a   Pizarro, Patricia ^a   López Vieyra, Mónica ^a   Neira Avilés, Patricia ^b   Bustamante, Rebeca ^a   Ponce, Carolina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b Independencia ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NOSE SMEAR; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARRIER STATE; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PREVALENCE;

EID: 75749141667     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649869     Document Type: Article

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