| pneumocystis carinii in children with severe pneumonia at mulago hospital, uganda. | the prevalence of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (pcp), its clinical and radiological features and the outcome in 121 children aged 2-60 months presenting with severe pneumonia over a 2-month period at mulago hospital, kampala are described. children presenting with severe pneumonia had sputum induction using 3% hypertonic saline. the sputum was stained using pcp monoclonal antibodies and viewed with fluorescent microscopy. twenty children with confirmed pcp were compared with 101 without pcp. t ... | 2004 | 15479572 |