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Speciality Spotlight
Pneumonia
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L Baril, et al (Pitie-Salpetriere Hosp, Paris)
Pyogenic Bacterial Pneumonia in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Inpatients: A Clinical, Radiological, Microbiological, and Epidemiological Study.
Clin Infect Dis 26:964-971, 1998.
Atypical clinical and radiologic findings in HIV-infected patients may obscure the diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia. The major risk factors for bacterial pneumonia in HIV-infected patients are sinusitis and previous bacterial pneumonia.