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Simultaneous bilateral pneumothorax in an immunocompromised HIV patient with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018
Pneumocystis in humans is caused by a unicellular and eukaryotic organism called P. jirovecii. The overall incidence of P. jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) has decreased with the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy and the use of chemoprophylaxis with ...
Cristina Matesanz López, Andrés Felipe Cardona Arias, María Teresa Río Ramírez, Gonzalo Díaz Ibero, Sergio Julio Rodríguez Álvarez, María Antonia Juretschke Moragues   +5 more
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Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome associated with pneumonia in a patient with AIDS

Journal of International Medical Research, 2020
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) after starting antiretroviral treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has a wide variety of causes. Delayed diagnosis and treatment of IRIS is fatal.
Ying Wen, Meng-chan Wang, Ying Zhou, Xu-yong Lin, Gang Hou, Yan Yin   +5 more
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Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in AIDS Patients [PDF]

, 2011
Jose M. Varela1, Francisco J. Medrano1, Eduardo Dei-Cas2,3 and Enrique J. Calderon1 1Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla and CIBER de Epidemiologia y Salud Publica, Internal Medicine Service, Virgen del Rocio University Hospital. Seville, 2Parasitology-Mycology Service (EA4547), Centre of Biology Pathology, Lille-2 University Hospital Centre, Faculty ...
Varela, Jose M., Medrano, Francisco J., Dei-Cas, Eduardo, Calderón, Enrique J.   +3 more
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Genome analysis of three Pneumocystis species reveals adaptation mechanisms to life exclusively in mammalian hosts

Nature Communications, 2016
Pneumocystis jirovecii is a fungus that can cause life-threatening pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. Here, the authors sequence the genomes of P.
Liang Ma, Zehua Chen, Da Wei Huang, Geetha Kutty, Mayumi Ishihara, Honghui Wang, Amr Abouelleil, Lisa Bishop, Emma Davey, Rebecca Deng, Xilong Deng, Lin Fan, Giovanna Fantoni, Michael Fitzgerald, Emile Gogineni, Jonathan M. Goldberg, Grace Handley, Xiaojun Hu, Charles Huber, Xiaoli Jiao, Kristine Jones, Joshua Z. Levin, Yueqin Liu, Pendexter Macdonald, Alexandre Melnikov, Castle Raley, Monica Sassi, Brad T. Sherman, Xiaohong Song, Sean Sykes, Bao Tran, Laura Walsh, Yun Xia, Jun Yang, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Xin Zheng, Robert Stephens, Chad Nusbaum, Bruce W. Birren, Parastoo Azadi, Richard A. Lempicki, Christina A. Cuomo, Joseph A. Kovacs   +43 more
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A case of spontaneous pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum & subcutaneous emphysema in Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia complicating HIV

Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2015
Spontaneous pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema are well-known but less common complications of pneumocystis pneumonia, whereas pnuemomediastinum is rare.
S Chatterji, D Pal, MK Ghosh, A Naskar, S Pal, S Mullick, I Bhattacharya   +6 more
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New Short Tandem Repeat-Based Molecular Typing Method for Pneumocystis jirovecii Reveals Intrahospital Transmission between Patients from Different Wards.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Pneumocystis pneumonia is a severe opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients caused by the unusual fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii. Transmission is airborne, with both immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals acting as a reservoir for ...
Maud Gits-Muselli, Marie-Noelle Peraldi, Nathalie de Castro, Véronique Delcey, Jean Menotti, Nicolas Guigue, Samia Hamane, Emmanuel Raffoux, Anne Bergeron, Sandrine Valade, Jean-Michel Molina, Stéphane Bretagne, Alexandre Alanio   +12 more
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Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Following Initiation of 15 mg Prednisone Daily

Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases
A 74-year-old man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented with acute dyspnea and rapidly progressed to hypoxic respiratory failure requiring high levels of noninvasive mechanical ventilation.
Matthew Anderson, Elizabeth Scruggs-Wodkowski   +1 more
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Development and Validation of a Pneumocystis jirovecii Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Diagnosis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2015
BACKGROUND: Pneumocystis jirovecii (PJ), a pathogenic fungus, causes severe interstitial Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among immunocompromised patients. A laboratory-developed real-time polyermase chain reaction (PCR) assay was validated for PJ detection ...
Deirdre L Church, Anshula Ambasta, Amanda Wilmer, Holly Williscroft, Gordon Ritchie, Dylan R Pillai, Sylvie Champagne, Daniel G Gregson   +7 more
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Serum-based diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia by detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA and 1,3-β-D-glucan in HIV-infected patients: a retrospective case control study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is one of the most common HIV-related opportunistic infections. The diagnosis of PCP is based on analyses from respiratory tract specimens which may require the invasive procedure of a diagnostic ...
Helena Hammarström, Anna Grankvist, Isabell Broman, Nahid Kondori, Christine Wennerås, Magnus Gisslen, Vanda Friman   +6 more
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Integrating multimodal management and molecular profiling in a patient with BRAF V600E–positive melanoma and brain metastases

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Volume 76, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
David Gritsch, Riley M. Fadden, Maura K. Mahar, Melin J. Khandsekar, Kevin S. Oh, Daniel P. Cahil III, Gavin P. Dunn, Ryan J. Sullivan, Priscilla K. Brastianos   +8 more
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