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Pneumococcal colonisation density: a new marker for disease severity in HIV-infected adults with pneumonia

OBJECTIVE: A high genomic load of Pneumococcus from blood or cerebrospinal fluid has been associated with increased mortality. We aimed to analyse whether nasopharyngeal colonisation density in HIV-infected patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is associated with markers of disease severi...

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Autores principales: Albrich, Werner C, Madhi, Shabir A, Adrian, Peter V, van Niekerk, Nadia, Telles, Jean-Noel, Ebrahim, N, Messaoudi, Melina, Paranhos-Baccalà, Glaucia, Giersdorf, Sven, Vernet, Guy, Mueller, Beat, Klugman, Keith P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4127937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25113557
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005953