Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.

Infection due to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)has become a principal health problem worldwide mainly in underdeveloped countries. In these patients, respiratory infections constitute the greatest cause of morbimortality rate in which Pneumocystis Carinii is the most frequently found pathoge...

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Main Authors: Héctor Cruz de los Santos, Roberto Travieso Peña, Eddy Pereira Valdes, Argelio A. Santana Cano, Rubén Bembibre Taboada
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Language:Spanish
Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2004-12-01
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Online Access:http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/76
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author Héctor Cruz de los Santos
Roberto Travieso Peña
Eddy Pereira Valdes
Argelio A. Santana Cano
Rubén Bembibre Taboada
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description Infection due to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)has become a principal health problem worldwide mainly in underdeveloped countries. In these patients, respiratory infections constitute the greatest cause of morbimortality rate in which Pneumocystis Carinii is the most frequently found pathogen. However, this article describes the case of a woman who is seropositive to HIV and who developed a severe and rapidly fatal community acquired pneumonia dur to Sthaphylococcus aureus, a very rare and less common infection in this kind of patients.<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span>
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spellingShingle Héctor Cruz de los Santos
Roberto Travieso Peña
Eddy Pereira Valdes
Argelio A. Santana Cano
Rubén Bembibre Taboada
Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.
Medisur
infecciones por vih
infecciones del tracto respiratorio
infecciones oportunistas relacionadas con sida
title Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.
title_full Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.
title_fullStr Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.
title_full_unstemmed Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.
title_short Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.
title_sort acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive hiv patients
topic infecciones por vih
infecciones del tracto respiratorio
infecciones oportunistas relacionadas con sida
url http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/76
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