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Pneumocystis Infection in Pregnant Women: A Scoping Review [PDF]

Journal of Fungi
Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic fungus that causes severe pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals. While Pneumocystis colonization, a subclinical form of infection, has been studied in different populations, its implications during pregnancy
Irene Calderón-Baturone, Rocío Salsoso, Elena Charpentier, Yaxsier de Armas, Pilar Guadix, Rubén Morilla, Enrique J. Calderón, Vicente Friaza   +7 more
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Update on Dihydropteroate Synthase (DHPS) Mutations in Pneumocystis jirovecii

Journal of Fungi, 2021
A Pneumocystis jirovecii is one of the most important microorganisms that cause pneumonia in immunosupressed individuals. The guideline for treatment and prophylaxis of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) is the use of a combination of sulfa drug-containing ...
Carmen de la Horra, Vicente Friaza, Rubén Morilla, Juan Delgado, Francisco J. Medrano, Robert F. Miller, Yaxsier de Armas, Enrique J. Calderón   +7 more
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A Case of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia under Belatacept and Everolimus: Benefit-Risk Balance between Renal Allograft Function and Infection

Case Reports in Nephrology and Dialysis, 2021
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia is an opportunistic disease usually prevented by trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. A 49-year-old HLA-sensitized male with successful late conversion from tacrolimus-based to belatacept-based immunosuppression developed P ...
Quentin Perrier, Antoine Portais, Florian Terrec, Yann Cerba, Thierry Romanet, Paolo Malvezzi, Pierrick Bedouch, Lionel Rostaing   +7 more
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A Mathematical Model for Co-infection Dynamics of Pneumocystis Pneumonia and HIV/AIDS with Treatment [PDF]

Science Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 12(4), 48-63 (2024), 2023
The control of opportunistic infections among HIV infected individuals should be one of the major public health concerns in reducing mortality rate of individuals living with HIV/AIDS. In this study a deterministic co-infection mathematical model is employed to provide a quantification of treatment at each contagious stage against Pneumocystis ...
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Performance of Existing Definitions and Tests for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases other than Invasive Candidiasis and Invasive Aspergillosis in Critically Ill, Adult Patients: A Systematic Review with Qualitative Evidence Synthesis

Journal of Fungi, 2021
The Fungal Infections Definitions in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients (FUNDICU) project aims to provide standard sets of definitions for invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) in critically ill, adult patients, including invasive aspergillosis (IA), invasive ...
Daniele R. Giacobbe, Andrea Cortegiani, Ilias Karaiskos, Toine Mercier, Sofia Tejada, Maddalena Peghin, Cecilia Grecchi, Chiara Rebuffi, Erika Asperges, Valentina Zuccaro, Luigia Scudeller, Matteo Bassetti, the FUNDICU investigators   +12 more
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Detection of opportunistic fungi from the bronchoalveolar lavage specimens of patients with pulmonary diseases

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2023
Background: Opportunistic fungi are a constantly evolving group of pathogens that become active when the immune system is compromised, begin to multiply, and soon overwhelm the weakened immune system.
Sahar Kianipour, Parvin Dehghan, Mohammad Emami Ardestani   +2 more
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CT Findings of Granulomatous Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma

대한영상의학회지, 2022
Although the typical CT findings of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PJP) include diffuse or multifocal areas of ground-glass opacities in both lungs, it can also rarely manifest as multiple pulmonary nodules.
So Ra Shin, Tae Sung Kim, Joungho Han
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Multilocus Genotyping of Pneumocystis jirovecii from Deceased Cuban AIDS Patients Using Formalin-Fixed and Paraffin-Embedded Tissues

Journal of Fungi, 2021
The results of the genotypic characterization of Pneumocystis jirovecii are described in lung tissue samples from 41 Cubans who died of AIDS with pneumocystosis between 1995 and 2008.
Vicente Friaza, Yaxsier de Armas, Virginia Capó, Rubén Morilla, Arturo Plascencia-Hernández, Héctor R. Pérez-Gómez, Enrique Iglesias, Luis Fonte, Carmen de la Horra, Enrique J. Calderón   +9 more
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Burden of fungal infections in Kenya

Mycology, 2023
The burden of fungal infections has been on the rise globally and remains a significant public health concern in Kenya. We estimated the incidence and prevalence of fungal infections using all mycology publications in Kenya up to January 2023, and from ...
Stanley N. Ratemo, David W Denning
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Quantification of Pneumocystis jirovecii: Cross-Platform Comparison of One qPCR Assay with Leading Platforms and Six Master Mixes

Journal of Fungi, 2019
Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia relies on nucleic acid quantification in respiratory samples. Lack of standardization among molecular assays results in significant differences among assays/centers.
Sarah Dellière, Maud Gits-Muselli, P. Lewis White, Carlo Mengoli, Stéphane Bretagne, Alexandre Alanio   +5 more
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