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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 37, Issue 10, Pages 1380-1383Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/379071
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Sputum induction for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is widely used for patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), but its utility for patients with other forms of immunocompromise is less well defined. Immunocompromised patients with PCP who do not have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have a lower burden of organisms, and sputum induction may consequently have lower diagnostic yield in these patients. However, this retrospective review of the experience at a tertiary referral center suggests that sputum induction has clinical utility for diagnosing PCP in immunocompromised patients without HIV infection.
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