Humans Are Selectively Exposed to
mBio, 2020 Environmental exposure has a significant impact on human health. While some airborne fungi can cause life-threatening infections, the impact of environment on fungal spore dispersal and transmission is poorly understood.
Ousmane H. Cissé +4 more
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HIV infection is associated with elevated biomarkers of immune activation in Ugandan adults with pneumonia. [PDF]
, 2019 IntroductionPneumonia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. How immune activation differs among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected adults with pneumonia is unknown.MethodsThe ...
Byanyima, Patrick +16 more
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Infections Complicating Orthotopic Liver Transplantation: A Study Emphasizing Graft-Related Septicemia [PDF]
, 1976 In 93 recipients of 102 orthotopic liver homografts, the incidence of bacteremia or fungemia exceeded 70%. The graft itself was usually an entry site for systemic infection after both immunologic and nonimmunologic parenchymal injury, especially if there
Hansbrough, JF +5 more
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Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials, 2021 Background Pneumocystis jirovecii and Aspergillus fumigatus, are opportunistic pathogenic fungus that has a major impact on mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Yili Chen +6 more
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Consensus definitions of 14 severe acute toxic effects for childhood lymphoblastic leukaemia treatment: a Delphi consensus [PDF]
, 2016 Although there are high survival rates for children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, their outcome is often counterbalanced by the burden of toxic effects.
Attarbaschi, Andishe +20 more
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Pneumocystis Carinii Infections
Primary Care Update for OB/GYNS, 2002 Pneumocystis carinii is a common pathogen among immunocompromised patients. The organism was originally classified as a protozoan until recent studies revealed more characteristics of a fungus. P. carinii is difficult to study because of the absence of an in vitro culture system.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA ( host institution ) +1 more
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Trichosporon asahii co-infection with Pneumocystis jiroveci in a renal transplant patient
IDCasesTrichosporon asahii is considered an opportunistic pathogen, capable of causing superficial infections in humans and invasive deep-seated infections in immunocompromised hosts.
Tingting Yang, Yajie Fu
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Late presentation of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after renal transplant: A case report
Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018 The highest risk of opportunistic infections is from 1 to 6 months post-transplant. We report a rare case of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a renal transplant recipient only on maintenance immunosuppression eleven years after transplant without ...
Prithiv Prasad +2 more
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Extrahepatic complications of liver transplantation. [PDF]
, 1985 The massive surgical assault associated with hepatic transplantation makes a high frequency of complications almost inevitable. In this review of 225 patient records, selected at random from cases of liver transplantation in Pittsburgh over a 2 1/2 year ...
Shaw, BW, Starzl, TE, Wood, RP
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Recognition and Clinical Presentation of Invasive Fungal Disease in Neonates and Children [PDF]
, 2017 AW and JK are supported by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (grant 097377) and the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (grant MR/N006364/1) at the University of AberdeenPeer reviewedPublisher ...
King, Jill +4 more
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