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Development and Validation of a Pneumocystis jirovecii Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay for Diagnosis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia

open access: yesCanadian 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pneumocystis jirovecii colonization in chronic pulmonary disease

open access: yesParasite, 2011
Pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals. However, it has been reported the detection of low levels of Pneumocystis DNA in patients without signs and symptoms of pneumonia, which likely represents colonization.
Gutiérrez S.   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Pneumonia is a condition that is often treated by emergency physicians. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the emergency department and highlights dilemmas in diagnostic testing, use of blood and sputum cultures, hospital ...
Abrahamian, Fredrick M   +2 more
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Diagnosis and treatment of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. [PDF]

open access: bronze, 1978
P. C. Hopewell   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Low uptake of antiretroviral therapy after admission with human immunodeficiency virus and tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
A prospective cohort study was conducted among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected in-patients with tuberculosis (TB) or other opportunistic infections (OIs) in South Africa to estimate subsequent antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake and ...
Kappagoda, S   +6 more
core   +1 more source

Pneumonia Detection in Chest Radiographs [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
In this work, we describe our approach to pneumonia classification and localization in chest radiographs. This method uses only \emph{open-source} deep learning object detection and is based on CoupleNet, a fully convolutional network which incorporates global and local features for object detection.
arxiv  

Swollen limbs and bone pain : a case report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
A 50 year old man presented with peripheral oedema, abdominal distension and a pulmonary opacity on CXR. He subsequently perforated his sigmoid colon as a complication of diverticulitis with pericolic abscess. After colectomy his postoperative period was
Cacciottolo, Joseph M.   +2 more
core  

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