Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia prophylaxis is not required with a CD4+ T-cell count < 200 cells/microl when viral replication is suppressed.

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Published in AIDS on August 20, 2007

Authors

Gianni E D'Egidio1, Stephen Kravcik, Curtis L Cooper, D William Cameron, Dean A Fergusson, Jonathan B Angel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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