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Pneumococcal colonisation density: a new marker for disease severity in HIV-infected adults with pneumonia

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  • Werner C Albrich Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Kantonsspital St Gallen, St Gallen, SwitzerlandMedical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shabir A Madhi Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaDepartment of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Peter V Adrian Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nadia van Niekerk Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jean-Noel Telles Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • N Ebrahim Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Melina Messaoudi Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Glaucia Paranhos-Baccalà Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sven Giersdorf Thermo Scientific Biomarkers, Hennigsdorf, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Guy Vernet Emerging Pathogens Laboratory, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, FranceCentre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroun PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Beat Mueller Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Keith P Klugman Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaHubert Department of Global Health and Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USAPneumonia Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Werner C Albrich; Werner.albrich{at}kssg.ch
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Albrich WC, Madhi SA, Adrian PV, et al
Pneumococcal colonisation density: a new marker for disease severity in HIV-infected adults with pneumonia
BMJ Open 2014;4:e005953. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005953

Publication history

  • Received June 23, 2014
  • Accepted July 24, 2014
  • First published August 11, 2014.
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October 26, 2017
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