Asymptomatic Carriage of Pneumocystis jirovecii and Cytomegalovirus in Lungs of Immunocompetent Patients

Lung

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 875-879

  Shteinberg, Michal ^a,b   Shaked Mishan, Pninit ^a   Kinarti, Amalia ^a   Abramovitch, Amir ^a,b   Amital, Anat ^a,b   Jacobi, Assaf ^a,b   Kolup Feldmann, Aharon E ^a   Shiner, Maayan ^a   Gershtein, Vladimir ^a   Weber, Gabriel ^a,b   Adir, Yochai ^a,b  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Cytomegalovirus; Immunocompetent; Pneumocystisjirovecii

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRONCHOSCOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISRAEL; LAVAGE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; AGED; CYTOLOGY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FOLLOW UP; HETEROZYGOTE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG LAVAGE; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARRIER STATE; COHORT STUDIES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84920993739     PISSN: 03412040     EISSN: 14321750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00408-014-9644-z     Document Type: Article

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