Acute psychosis related to use of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole in the treatment of HIV-infected patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a multicentre, retrospective study | Zendy

K.-Y. Lee | Zendy; ChiHsiang Huang | Zendy; H.-J. Tang | Zendy; ChiaJui Yang | Zendy; WenChien Ko | Zendy; YenHsu Chen | Zendy; YiChung Lee | Zendy; ChienChing Hung | Zendy

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Acute psychosis related to use of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole in the treatment of HIV-infected patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: a multicentre, retrospective study

Author(s) -

K.-Y. Lee,

ChiHsiang Huang,

H.-J. Tang,

ChiaJui Yang,

WenChien Ko,

YenHsu Chen,

YiChung Lee,

ChienChing Hung

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dks283

Subject(s) - trimethoprim , sulfamethoxazole , medicine , pneumonia , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , pneumocystis pneumonia , pneumocystis jirovecii , psychosis , antibiotics , psychiatry , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , optics , biology

A recent study reported that trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole caused acute psychosis in four renal transplant patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. We aimed to investigate the incidence of and factors associated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole-related acute psychosis in HIV-infected patients with P. jirovecii pneumonia.

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