Prevalences of Pneumocystis jiroveci, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in children with severe pneumonia, in a tertiary referral hospital in northern Tanzania

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-249

  Uriyo, J ^a   Gosling, R D ^a,b   Maddox, V ^b   Sam, N E ^a   Schimana, W ^a   Gillespie, S H ^b   McHugh, T D ^b,c  

^a KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TANZANIA; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PREVALENCE; SPUTUM; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 85047695914     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485913X13789813917580     Document Type: Article

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