Outcome of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia diagnosed by polymerase chain reaction in patients without human immunodeficiency virus infection

Respirology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 681-686

  Hardak, Emilia ^a   Neuberger, Ami ^b   Yigla, Mordechai ^a,d   Berger, Gidon ^a   Finkelstein, Renato ^b,d   Sprecher, Hannah ^c   Oren, Ilana ^b,d  

^a Division of Pulmonary Medicine   (Israel)

^b Infectious Diseases Unit   (Israel)

^c Microbiology Laboratory   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

diagnosis; immunocompromised; mortality; pneumocystis; pneumonia

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENDER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859882967     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2012.02158.x     Document Type: Article

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