pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in hiv/aids patients at an urban district hospital in kenya. | pneumocystis carinii pneumonia has generally been regarded to be an uncommon opportunistic infection in hiv infected individuals in sub-saharan africa. the reason for this has not been clear but postulates included a lack of suitable pathogenic types in the african environment, diagnostic difficulties and the more commonly held belief that african hiv infected individuals were dying early from common non-opportunistic pathogens before severe degrees of immunosuppression occured. recently a trend ... | 2003 | 12755239 |