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Oral Atovaquone Compared with Intravenous Pentamidine for <i>Pneumocystis carinii</i> Pneumonia in Patients with AIDS

DOI

96

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0

References

1994

Year

Michael N. Dohn, Winkler G. Weinberg, Ramón A. Torres, Stephen Follansbee, Paul T. Caldwell, John D. Scott, Joseph Gathe, D. Haghighat, John H. Sampson, Jared Spotkov,
Annals of Internal Medicine

Abstract

Oral atovaquone and intravenous pentamidine have similar rates for successful treatment of mild and moderate P. carinii pneumonia, but atovaquone has significantly fewer treatment-limiting adverse events.