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Serum markers in interstitial pneumonia with and without Pneumocystis jirovecii colonization: a prospective study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2009
Background In patients with chronic respiratory disease, Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii) colonization is observed, and may influence disease progression and systemic inflammation.
Shimizu Yasuo, Sunaga Noriaki, Dobashi Kunio, Fueki Makoto, Fueki Naoto, Makino Sohei, Mori Masatomo   +6 more
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Axenic Long-Term Cultivation of Pneumocystis jirovecii

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Pneumocystis jirovecii, a fungus causing severe Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in humans, has long been described as non-culturable. Only isolated short-term experiments with P.
Diana Riebold, Marie Mahnkopf, Kristina Wicht, Cristina Zubiria-Barrera, Jan Heise, Marcus Frank, Daniel Misch, Torsten Bauer, Hartmut Stocker, Hortense Slevogt   +9 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, Chang, Emily G, Crothers, Kristina, Davis, J Lucian, Huang, Laurence, Hunt, Peter W, Kaswabuli, Sylvia, Lalitha, Rejani, Lederman, Michael M, Lin, Jue, Moisi, Daniela, Moore, Julia, Musisi, Emmanuel, Sanyu, Ingvar, Sessolo, Abdulwahab, Wang, Richard J, Worodria, William   +16 more
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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a non-small cell lung cancer patient on chemoradiotherapy: A case report

Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2020
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia is a very uncommon complication in lung cancer patients. We report the case of a 59-year-old, Stage IIIB non-small cell lung cancer (epidermoid) patient who was receiving concurrent chemotherapy scheme (cisplatin ...
Kevin Doello, Víctor Amezcua, Javier García, Javier Valdivia   +3 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, Norihito Tarumoto, Kazuo Imai, Jun Sakai, Masahiro Kodana, Erika Naito, Yoshitaka Uchida, Makoto Nagata, Shigefumi Maesaki   +8 more
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Improved detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in upper and lower respiratory tract specimens from children with suspected pneumocystis pneumonia using real-time PCR: a prospective study [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a major cause of hospitalization and mortality in HIV-infected African children. Microbiologic diagnosis relies predominantly on silver or immunofluorescent staining of a lower respiratory tract (LRT) specimens
Andrew Whitelaw, Brenda Morrow, Catherine M Samuel, Craig Corcoran, Heather J Zar, Marco Zampoli, Nei-Yuan Hsiao, Samuel, Catherine M   +7 more
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Successful long-term treatment of persistent pulmonary air leak in pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia by unidirectional endobronchial valves

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Spontaneous pneumothorax is a rare complication of pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia. We report a patient with pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and therapy-refractory, right-sided pneumothorax due to persistent air leak (PAL) despite prolonged chest tube ...
Stefanie Bader, Christian Faul, Stephan Raab, Martin Schwaiblmair, Thomas M. Berghaus   +4 more
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Colonization Density of the Upper Respiratory Tract as a Predictor of Pneumonia-Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pneumocystis jirovecii. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND.: There is limited information on the association between colonization density of upper respiratory tract colonizers and pathogen-specific pneumonia.
Ahmed, Dilruba, Antonio, Martin, Baggett, Henry C, Baillie, Vicky L, Brooks, W Abdullah, Deloria Knoll, Maria, DeLuca, Andrea N, Driscoll, Amanda J, Feikin, Daniel R, Fu, Wei, Gitahi, Caroline W, Hammitt, Laura L, Higdon, Melissa M, Hossain, Lokman, Howie, Stephen RC, Karron, Ruth A, Kotloff, Karen L, Levine, Orin S, Madhi, Shabir A, Maiga, Abdoul Aziz, Maloney, Susan A, Moore, David P, Morpeth, Susan C, Murdoch, David R, Mwaba, John, Mwenechanya, Musaku, O'Brien, Katherine L, Olutunde, Emmanuel, Park, Daniel E, PERCH Study Group, Prosperi, Christine, Scott, J Anthony G, Shi, Qiyuan, Sylla, Mamadou, Thamthitiwat, Somsak, Thea, Donald M, Watson, Nora L, Zeger, Scott L   +37 more
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Unusual Radiographic Presentation of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in a Patient with AIDS. [PDF]

, 2017
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) typically presents as an interstitial and alveolar process with ground glass opacities on chest computed tomography (CT).
Block, Brian L, Cattamanchi, Adithya, Ferris, Sean P, Huang, Laurence, Mehta, Tejas, Ortiz, Gabriel M, Vu, Thienkhai H   +6 more
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Successful Treatment of Pulmonary and Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Associated with Pneumocystis Pneumonia in an HIV Patient

Diseases, 2017
In both the post and pre combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) era, Pneumocystis jirovecii and Toxoplasma gondii remain common opportunistic infectious agents. The common manifestations are pneumonia for P. jirovecii and brain abscess for T.
Marie-Françoise Rey, Charles Mary, Diane Sanguinetti, Stéphane Ranque, Christophe Bartoli, Coralie L’Ollivier   +5 more
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