Induced sputum to diagnose Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in immunosuppressed pediatric patients

J Pediatr. 1989 Sep;115(3):430-3. doi: 10.1016/s0022-3476(89)80848-0.

Authors

F P Ognibene¹, V J Gill, P A Pizzo, J A Kovacs, C Godwin, A F Suffredini, J H Shelhamer, J E Parrillo, H Masur

Affiliation

¹ Critical Care Medicine Department, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

PMID: 2671329
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(89)80848-0

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Antibodies, Viral / analysis
Child
Child, Preschool
Fluorescent Antibody Technique
Humans
Immune System Diseases / complications*
Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / etiology
Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / microbiology*
Sputum / microbiology*
Suction

Substances

Antibodies, Viral