Fatal pneumocystis pneumonia with good syndrome and pure red cell aplasia [6]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1740-1741

  Jian, Li ^a   Bin, Du ^a   Haiyun, Wang ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GOOD SYNDROME; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE RED CELL ANEMIA; RECURRENT INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RED-CELL APLASIA, PURE; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 9644269065     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/425923     Document Type: Letter

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