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Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: Invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) remain important causes of morbidity and mortality. The consensus definitions of the Infectious Diseases Group of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group have ...
Akan, H, Alexander, BD, Andes, D, Azoulay, E, Baddley, JW, Bassetti, M, Bialek, R, Bradsher, RW, Bretagne, S, Calandra, T, Caliendo, AM, Castagnola, E, Chen, SC, Clancy, CJ, Cruciani, M, Cuenca-Estrella, M, Decker, CF, Desai, SR, Donnelly, JP, Fisher, B, Groll, AH, Harrison, T, Heussel, CP, Jensen, HE, Kauffman, CA, Kibbler, CC, Kontoyiannis, DP, Kullberg, B-J, Lagrou, K, Lamoth, F, Lehrnbecher, T, Lockhart, SR, Loeffler, J, Lortholary, O, Maertens, J, Marchetti, O, Marr, KA, Masur, H, Meis, JF, Morrisey, CO, Nucci, M, Ostrosky-Zeichner, L, Pagano, L, Pappas, PG, Patterson, TF, Perfect, JR, Prokop, CS, Racil, Z, Roilides, E, Ruhnke, M, Shoham, S, Slavin, MA, Sorrell, TC, Steinbach, WJ, Stevens, DA, Thompson, GR, Vazquez, JA, Verweij, PE, Viscoli, C, Walsh, TJ, Warris, A, Wheat, LJ, White, PL, Wingard, JR, Zaoutis, TE   +64 more
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Detection of Pneumocystis and Morphological Description of Fungal Distribution and Severity of Infection in Thirty-Six Mammal Species

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Pneumocystis spp. are thought to adapt to the lungs of potentially all mammals. However, the full host range, fungal burden and severity of infection are unknown for many species.
Christiane Weissenbacher-Lang, Barbara Blasi, Patricia Bauer, Diana Binanti, Karin Bittermann, Lara Ergin, Carmen Högler, Tanja Högler, Magdalena Klier, Julia Matt, Nora Nedorost, Serenella Silvestri, Daniela Stixenberger, Liang Ma, Ousmane H. Cissé, Joseph A. Kovacs, Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Annika Posautz, Herbert Weissenböck   +18 more
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Regional and temporal changes in AIDS in Europe before HAART [PDF]

, 2002
In a prospective observational study 4485 patients from 46 clinical centres in 17 European countries were followed between April 1994 and November 1996.
Ben-Ishai, Z, Blaxhult, A, Colebunders, R, EuroSIDA Study Grp, E, Fatkenheuer, G, Fox, Z, Francioli, P, Kirk, O, Parkin, JM, Phillips, AN, Vanhems, P   +10 more
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Smoldering adult T-cell leukemia complicated with pneumocystis pneumonia: A case report

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2021
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is a tumor of CD4-positive T cells that accompanies an infection by human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I). ATL is classified into four types—acute, lymphomatous, chronic, and smoldering.
Kazuma Kawamoto, Masahiro Yamasaki, Masaya Taniwaki, Mituhiro Itagaki, Wakako Daido, Yu Matsumoto, Naoko Matsumoto, Yusuke Izumi, Masaya Otohara, Nobuyuki Ohashi, Noboru Hattori   +10 more
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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, Lehrnbecher, Thomas, Pana, Zoi-Dorothea, Steinbach, William J., Warris, Adilia   +4 more
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Pneumocystis Infection in Pregnant Women: A Scoping Review

Journal of Fungi
Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic fungus that causes severe pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals. While Pneumocystis colonization, a subclinical form of infection, has been studied in different populations, its implications during pregnancy
Irene Calderón-Baturone, Rocío Salsoso, Elena Charpentier, Yaxsier de Armas, Pilar Guadix, Rubén Morilla, Enrique J. Calderón, Vicente Friaza   +7 more
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Diagnostic Performance of Bronchoalveolar Lavage (1,3)-β-d-Glucan Assay for Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia

Journal of Fungi, 2020
We evaluated the performance of the (1,3)-β-d-glucan (BDG) assay on bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) as a possible aid to the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia.
Shiwei Zhou, Kathleen A. Linder, Carol A. Kauffman, Blair J. Richards, Steve Kleiboeker, Marisa H. Miceli   +5 more
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Ventilator-associated Pneumonia After Elective Cardiac Surgery Caused by Pneumocystis Jirovecii [PDF]

, 2014
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a severe complication among patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Although hospital-acquired bacterial pathogens, often multidrug resistant, are the most frequent cause, non-bacterial atypical and opportunistic agents ...
Cifuentes, M, Miller, RF, Silva, F, Tobar, E, Vargas, SL, Zamorano, A   +5 more
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A New Name for Pneumocystis from Humans and New Perspectives on the Host-Pathogen Relationship

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002
The disease known as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is a major cause of illness and death in persons with impaired immune systems. While the genus Pneumocystis has been known to science for nearly a century, understanding of its members remained ...
James R. Stringer, Charles B. Beard, Robert F. Miller, Ann E. Wakefield   +3 more
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Limited asymptomatic carriage of Pneumocystis jiroveci in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients [PDF]

, 2003
Forty-seven bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from 16 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients were used to test the latency model of Pneumocystis infection in the human host.
Ambrose, HE, Denis, CM, Lindley, AR, Miller, RF, Wakefield, AE   +4 more
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