Molecular diagnosis of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in immunocompromised patients

Mycoses

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 329-333

  Jarboui, M A ^a   Sellami, A ^a   Sellami, H ^a   Cheikhrouhou, F ^a   Makni, F ^a   Ben Arab, N ^b   Ben Jemaa, M ^b   Ayadi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b HEDI CHAKER HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cytological staining; Immunofluorescence; Nested PCR; PCR; Pneumocystis jiroveci

Indexed keywords

SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROCEDURES; SPUTUM;

PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MYCOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM;

EID: 77953334599     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2009.01715.x     Document Type: Article

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