| pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in human immunodeficiency virus infected patients in bombay: diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage cytology and transbronchial lung biopsy. | we report pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (pcp) diagnosed by bronchoalveolar lavage cytology and transbronchial lung biopsy in three out of five human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) positive adult patients presenting with interstitial pneumonitis. one of these patients was serologically positive for hiv at the time of presentation and the remaining two patients were detected to be hiv positive on follow up after the diagnosis had been established. all the three patients were treated with co-trimoxa ... | 1996 | 9018976 |