Pneumocystis infection: Unraveling the colonization-to-disease shift

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 259-262

  Calderon, Enrique J ^a   Dei Cas, Eduardo ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; BETA GLUCAN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE;

BELGIUM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUROPEAN UNION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WORKSHOP;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RESEARCH;

EID: 77649290264     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/eri.10.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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