Clinical and microbiological characteristics of hospitalized patients with community- acquired pneumonia
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Clinical and microbiological characteristics of community-acquired pneumonia among HIV-infected patients in northern Thailand
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are prevalent in Thailand. However, the clinical and microbiological characteristics of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in such patients are not completely clear at present. In the present study, we analyzed the characteristics of CAP in 191 HIV-infected patients (192 episodes, 130 males and 61 females, mean age 32.9 years, range:20-62) who had b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart - Lung (Varna)
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1310-6341
DOI: 10.14748/hl.v17i3-4.4325