Pneumocystis pneumonia

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 775-782

  Gilroy, Shelley A ^a   Bennett, Nicholas J ^b,c  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c Farmington   (United States)

Author keywords

Pneumocystis jiroveci; Pneumocystis pneumonia; trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole

Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; PENTAMIDINE; PRIMAQUINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PANCREATITIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SIDE EFFECT; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREMIA;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHEMOPREVENTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 83655193131     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1295725     Document Type: Article

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