Evidence-based practice: Management of combined toxoplasma meningo-encephalitis and pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV

Virulence

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 350-352

  Bruck, Peter E ^a   Das, Satyajit ^a   Allan, P Sris ^a  

^a Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral toxoplasmosis; Chronic HIV 1; Hepatitis B; Pneumocystis pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATOVAQUONE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOLINIC ACID; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; PRIMAQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADIAZINE; VIRUS DNA;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIPLOPIA; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER TOXICITY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NERVE PARALYSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PNEUMOCYSTIS; TOXOPLASMA;

EID: 77954972855     PISSN: 21505594     EISSN: 21505608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/viru.1.4.11833     Document Type: Article

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