Failure of standard antimicrobial therapy in children aged 3-59 months with mild or asymptomatic HIV infection and severe pneumonia

• Main Authors: Jeena Prakash (Author), Thea Donald M (Author), MacLeod William B (Author), Chisaka Noel (Author), Fox Matthew P (Author), Coovadia HM (Author), Qazi Shamim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To determine whether children aged 3-59 months with mild or non-symptomatic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and WHO-defined severe pneumonia have a higher failure rate than do HIV-uninfected children when treated with the standard WHO treatment of parenteral penicillin or ora...