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Smoldering adult T-cell leukemia complicated with pneumocystis pneumonia: A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021 Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is a tumor of CD4-positive T cells that accompanies an infection by human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I). ATL is classified into four types—acute, lymphomatous, chronic, and smoldering.
Kazuma Kawamoto +10 more
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Co-Infection of COVID-19 and Pneumocystosis Following Rituximab Infusion—A Case Report
Transplantology, 2022 Immunocompromised patients with respiratory viral infections are at increased risk of fungal superinfections, including Pneumocystosis. Within the scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pneumocystis jirovecii co-infections are being increasingly reported ...
Michelle Dakowitz +4 more
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Evaluation of direct immunofluorescent method in the detection of Pneumocystis jiroveci among patients with lower respiratory tract infections [PDF]
المجلة العراقية للصيدلة, 2019 Objective: Evaluate the use of direct immunofluorescent method in the detection of Pneumocystis jiroveci from induced sputum of patients with LRT infections. Patients and methods: Thirty patients with LRT infections were included (24 patients were
Manahil M. Yehia +2 more
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Analysis of Pneumocystis Transcription Factor Evolution and Implications for Biology and Lifestyle
mBio, 2023 Pneumocystis jirovecii kills hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised patients each year. Yet many aspects of the biology of this obligate pathogen remain obscure because it is not possible to culture the fungus in vitro independently of its host ...
Ryan Ames +3 more
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CONVENTIONAL METHODS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED IRAQI PATIENTS
The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 Background: Pneumocystis jirovecii is the causative agent of pneumocystis pneumonia, one of the most frequent and severe opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patients.
Isa S. Touhali +2 more
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Pathogens, 2021 Pneumocystis jirovecii is a fungal pathogen that can cause life-threatening infections in individuals who are immunocompromised. Acquired via inhalation, upon entering the respiratory tract, the fungi first encounter innate immune cells such as alveolar ...
Theodore J. Kottom +3 more
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The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 Background: Pneumocystis carinii is one of the rare fungi which cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. It is important to detect the fungus from the clinical specimens of suspected patients by laboratory tests. Objective:To identify Pneumocystis
Manahil M. Yehia +1 more
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Risk of infection associated with targeted therapies for solid organ and hematological malignancies
Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2021 Higher risks of infection are associated with some targeted drugs used to treat solid organ and hematological malignancies, and an individual patient’s risk of infection is strongly influenced by underlying diseases and concomitant or prior treatments ...
Isabel Ruiz-Camps, Juan Aguilar-Company
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Opportunistic infections are common in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)‐infected patients. Co‐infections with Cryptococcus neoformans and Mycobacterium species together with Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCP) are rare and typically occur in ...
Eihab A. Subahi +4 more
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A case of Talaromyces marneffei infection that required differentiation from Pneumocystis pneumonia
IDCases, 2023 We report a case of Talaromyces marneffei fungemia in a patient with HIV infection with a history of travelling to southern China. At first, Pneumocystis pneumonia was considered in this case because chest CT images showed typical ground-glass opacity ...
Mieko Tokano +8 more
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