Diagnosis of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in children with haematological malignancies /
تشخيص الالتهاب الرئوى الناتج عن الاصابة بفطر نيومسيستس كارينى فى الاطفال المصابين بامراض الدم الخبيثة
Nevine Ibrahim Nashed ; Supervised Mikhail Nasr Mikhail , Azza Essam ElDin Badr , Soheir Omar ElBassiouny
- Cairo : Nevine Ibrahim Nashed , 2007
- 197P : ill ; 25cm
Thesis (PH.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Microbiology and Immunology
This study was planned to evaluate the possible application of PCR as a rapid method for diagnosis of PCP in children with haematological malignancies under immunosuppressive therapy by comparing PCR - based assay with the conventionally - used methods for diagnosing PCP which include direct staining of clinical samples or immunofluorescence (IF) assay This study was conducted on 50 patients with haematological malignancies