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PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII PNEUMONIA

Medical Clinics of North America, 1997
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) remains an important complication of AIDS. Advances have been made in establishing the taxonomy of the organism but the life cycle of the organism and pathogenetic mechanisms of disease remain obscure. In HIV patients the incidence of PCP has decreased because of widespread use of prophylaxis and survival of those ...
J T, Santamauro, D E, Stover
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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

Journal of Thoracic Imaging, 1991
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is the most common index diagnosis in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Eighty percent of AIDS patients will eventually develop PCP. Common presenting symptoms are shortness of breath, cough, weight loss, and fever.
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Pneumocystis carinii thyroiditis

The American Journal of Medicine, 1988
A 38-year-old black man with a history of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome associated with intravenous drug abuse presented with two weeks of left-sided neck swelling. Results of thyroid function tests were within normal limits. Thyroid scan demonstrated nonvisualization of the left lobe. Fine-needle aspiration of the thyroid revealed the presence of
J E, Gallant, R E, Enriquez, K L, Cohen, L W, Hammers   +3 more
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Pneumocystis carinii Infection

Southern Medical Journal, 1977
Over the past decade, P carinii has become an important cause of pneumonia in the compromised host. Progress has been made in clinical awareness of the organism, in methods of diagnosis, and in developing new forms of treatment. However, there is still a lack of basic knowledge about the biology, taxonomy, and epidemiology of P carinii; of specific ...
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Nomenclature for Pneumocystis carinii

Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1988
Although Pneumocystis carinii was first recognized over 75 y ago, its taxonomic position remains to be established. The difficulty with taxonomy stems from the dearth of knowledge about the biology of P. carinii, along with the lack of well-defined and generally accepted criteria for the classification of protozoa as well as fungi.
W T, Hughes, F, Gigliotti
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Pneumocystis Carinii : An Update

Ultrastructural Pathology, 2003
Pneumocystis produces respiratory infection in immunocompromised individuals of several species of mammals, including humans. Each mammalian species has its own specific Pneumocystis species, which does not cross-infect other mammals. The species infecting humans has now been renamed P. jerovici, since P.
Gurdip S, Sidhu, Nicholas D, Cassai, Zhiheng, Pei   +2 more
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Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia

1986
Prior to 1981, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was a rather rare disease seen primarily by physicians working with oncology or transplant patients. Then early in June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued the first report of PCP in five homosexual men in Los Angeles1. That brief report, in retrospect, marked the beginning of a new and
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Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia

Radiology, 1960
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia is apparently still rare in the United States, since only seven deaths from this cause have been unequivocally proved. The seventh of these cases, from the John Sealy Hospital, Galveston, Texas, brought to our attention this interesting and serious interstitial plasma-cell pneumonia which we had not heretofore recognized.
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Pneumocystis carinii in wildlife

International Journal for Parasitology, 1998
Pneumocystis carinii is a eukaryotic organism capable of causing life-threatening pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised hosts. Despite intensive investigation in human and laboratory animal hosts, information on the occurrence and nature of infections in wild animals is scarce, although characterisation of infections in wild-animal populations may help ...
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Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonitis

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 1984
I n a sense, opportunistic infections may serve as diagnostic indicators of certain host defects or disease processes that diminish the immune response. The myriad microbes comprising the endogenous and exogenous flora of man are rarely a threat to the health of normal individuals.
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