Outcome of human immunodeficiency virus-exposed and -infected children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit for respiratory failure

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 516-519

  Kitchin, Omolemo P ^a   Masekela, Refiloe ^a   Becker, Piet ^b   Moodley, Teshni ^a   Risenga, Sam M ^a   Green, Robin J ^a  

^a STEVE BIKO ACADEMIC HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

cytomegalovirus; ganciclovir; human immunodeficiency virus; mortality; pneumocystis syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; STEROID;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SURVIVAL; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TUBERCULOSIS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS LOAD;

COINFECTION; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL LOAD;

EID: 84866433984     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31824ea143     Document Type: Article

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