Valganciclovir treatment of primary cytomegalovirus pneumonitis in an immunocompetent adult

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Snape, Susan E ^a   Venkatesan, Pradhib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEVOFLOXACIN; VALGANCICLOVIR;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COUGHING; CYTOLOGY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; SINUSITIS; SMOKING; TACHYCARDIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

EID: 79955376966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.11.2010.3489     Document Type: Article

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