| fatal pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in hiv-seropositive infants in harare, zimbabwe. | lung biopsies taken post mortem from 24 hiv-seropositive children who died of pneumonia in harare hospital (zimbabwe) during 1995 were examined for pathogens using histology, culture, microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (pcr). pneumocystis carinii was detected in 16 (67%) children, in 5 of whom bacterial pathogens were also detected. there were 2 cases of cytomegalovirus infection. on the basis of histology and pcr, none of the children had tuberculosis. these data add to the evidence that ... | 2001 | 11280062 |