[Pneumocystis jirovecii and quantitative PCR: Pneumonia or colonization?]
CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with a positive Pj PCR in BAL but with negative IF, only 37% had probable or possible PJP and PCR could not discriminate PJP from colonization.
PMID: 32273116 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue des Maladies Respiratoires - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Rev Mal Respir Source Type: research
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