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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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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spelling | doaj-art-9cab74eb12dc46ccb6868594f7a41fa52025-01-30T21:28:36ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2004-12-0123535576Acquired severe pneumonia in the community in seropositive HIV patients.Héctor Cruz de los SantosRoberto Travieso PeñaEddy Pereira ValdesArgelio A. Santana CanoRubén Bembibre TaboadaInfection 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>http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/76infecciones por vihinfecciones del tracto respiratorioinfecciones oportunistas relacionadas con sida |
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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