title: Journal Club. HIV-associated bacterial pneumonia.
abstract: Bacterial pneumonia is the most common cause of death from pneumonia in patients with HIV disease, causing greater mortality than Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. The challenge for the clinician evaluating the HIV-infected patient with pneumonia is to quickly distinguish clinically among all possible causes and to initiate therapy based on the most likely diagnosis. While an understanding of typical clinical and radiographic presentations is essential, bronchoscopy is the preferred test for reliably identifying the causative organism.
authors.affiliation: New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Medical College of Cornell University, USA.
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authors.lastname: Sanders
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D018791:CD4 Lymphocyte Count; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D011859:Radiography