Disseminated pneumocystis carinii infection in AIDS.
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Disseminated pneumocystis carinii infection in AIDS.
Eight patients with AIDS and Pneumocystis carinii infection were studied. Protean manifestations were a feature not untypical of disseminated pneumocystosis. Aerosolised pentamidine as prophylaxis against P carinii pneumonia was ineffective at suppressing dissemination. The knowledge that extrapulmonary infection can occur has implications for the detection and treatment of, and prophylaxis aga...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.44.10.820