Non-HIV Pneumocystis pneumonia: Do conventional community-acquired pneumonia guidelines under estimate its severity?

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Asai, Nobuhiro ^a   Motojima, Shinji ^a   Ohkuni, Yoshihiro ^a   Matsunuma, Ryo ^a   Nakasima, Kei ^a   Iwasaki, Takuya ^a   Nakashita, Tamao ^a   Otsuka, Yoshihito ^a   Kaneko, Norihiro ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Community acquired pneumonia; Guidelines; Mortality; Non HIV Pneumocystis pneumonia

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; STEROID;

A DROP SCALE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURB 65 SCORE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA SEVERITY INDEX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866258713     PISSN: 1828695X     EISSN: 20496958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2049-6958-7-2     Document Type: Article

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