Failure of standard antimicrobial therapy in children aged 3-59 months with mild or asymptomatic HIV infection and severe pneumonia

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether children aged 3-59 months with mild or non-symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and WHO-defined severe pneumonia have a higher failure rate than do HIV-uninfected children when treated with the standard WHO treatment of parenteral penicillin or ora...

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Hauptverfasser: Jeena Prakash, Thea Donald M, MacLeod William B, Chisaka Noel, Fox Matthew P, Coovadia HM, Qazi Shamim
Format: Artikel
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: The World Health Organization 2006-01-01
Schriftenreihe:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Zugang:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862006000400010