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Pneumocystis Pneumonia: Pitfalls and Hindrances to Establishing a Reliable Animal Model

Journal of Fungi, 2022
Pneumocystis pneumonia is a severe lung infection that occurs primarily in largely immunocompromised patients. Few treatment options exist, and the mortality rate remains substantial. To develop new strategies in the fields of diagnosis and treatment, it
Adélaïde Chesnay, Christophe Paget, Nathalie Heuzé-Vourc’h, Thomas Baranek, Guillaume Desoubeaux   +4 more
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Scaling-up co-trimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children in high HIV-prevalence countries. [PDF]

, 2007
Co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) is a widely available antibiotic that substantially reduces HIV-related morbidity and mortality in both adults and children.
Abdel-Haq, Anglaret, Anglaret, Ansari, Anthony D Harries, Badri, Boerma, Chewe Luo, Chintu, Chintu, Creek, Gill, Graham, Graham, Gretchen Bachman, Grimwade, Manzi, Mermin, Mermin, Mwaungulu, Nathoo, Perez, Ponnet, Rony Zachariah, Ruffini, Stephen M Graham, Thera, Watera, Wiktor, Yazdanpanah, Zachariah, Zachariah, Zachariah, Zachariah   +33 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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Increased mortality in hematological malignancy patients with acute respiratory failure from undetermined etiology : a Groupe de Recherche en Réanimation Respiratoire en Onco-Hématologique (Grrr-OH) study [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is the most frequent complication in patients with hematological malignancies and is associated with high morbidity and mortality.
Azoulay, Elie, Benoit, Dominique, Bruneel, Fabrice, Contejean, Adrien, Darmon, Michael, Hamidfar, Rebecca, Jourdain, Mercé, Kouatchet, Achille, Lemiale, Virginie, Mayaux, Julien, Meert, Anne-Pascale, Mokart, Djamel, Nyunga, Martine, Perez, Pierre, Pène, Frédéric, Rabbat, Antoine, Renault, Anne, Resche-Rigon, Matthieu, Schlemmer, Benoît, Vincent, François   +19 more
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Ventilação mecânica não-invasiva em paciente com provável pneumonia por pneumocystis jirovecii: relato de caso Noninvasive mechanical ventilation in patient with pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: case report

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2008
JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: A pneumonia por Pneumocystis jirovecii tem sido uma das doenças mais comuns e uma complicação infecciosa fatal em pacientes com síndrome da imunodeficiência adquirida.
Élida Mara Carneiro, Renata Zago Maneira, Eduardo Rocha   +2 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, Barzilai, Shlomit, Escherich, Gabriele, Frandsen, Thomas Leth, Halsey, Christina, Hough, Rachael, Jeha, Sima, Kato, Motohiro, Liang, Der-Cherng, Mikkelsen, Torben Stamm, Moricke, Anja, Niinimaki, Riitta, Piette, Caroline, Putti, Maria Caterina, Raetz, Elizabeth, Schmiegelow, Kjeld, Silverman, Lewis B., Skinner, Roderick, Tuckuviene, Ruta, van der Sluis, Inge, Zapotocka, Ester   +20 more
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Features of clinical manifestations and diagnosis of comorbidity of disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis, coronavirus, pneumocystis and pneumococcal pneumonia in patients with late stages of HIV infection with immunodeficiency

Consilium Medicum, 2023
Aim. To study the features of clinical manifestations and diagnosis of comorbidity of disseminated pulmonary tuberculosis, coronavirus, pneumocystis and pneumococcal pneumonia in patients with late stages of HIV infection with immunodeficiency ...
Vladimir Y. Mishin, Anastasiia V. Mishina, Dmitry A. Lezhnev, Aleksandr L. Sobkin, Ivan V. Shashenkov   +4 more
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DETECTION OF PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII (JIROVECI) FROM IRAQI PATIENTS WITH LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS

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, Zainalabideen A. Abdulla   +1 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, Azhar A.F. Ibrahim, Haider N. Dawood   +2 more
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Pneumocystis Pneumonia Presenting as an Enlarging Solitary Pulmonary Nodule

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases, 2016
Pneumocystis pneumonia is a life threatening infection that usually presents with diffuse bilateral ground-glass infiltrates in immunocompromised patients.
Krunal Bharat Patel, James Benjamin Gleason, Maria Julia Diacovo, Nydia Martinez-Galvez   +3 more
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