Pneumonia por pneumocystis jiroveci [PDF]
A Pneumonia por Pneumocystis jiroveci surge como uma patologia oportunista, muito frequente de indivíduos, principalmente daqueles infectados com VIH que entram na fase de SIDA.
Rodrigues, Francisco
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Atovaquone Compared with Dapsone for the Prevention of Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia in Patients with HIV Infection Who Cannot Tolerate Trimethoprim, Sulfonamides, or Both [PDF]
BACKGROUND Although trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole is the drug of choice for the prevention of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, many patients cannot tolerate it and must switch to an alternative agent.
Balfour, Henry H., , Jr., M.D. +11 more
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Trichosporon asahii co-infection with Pneumocystis jiroveci in a renal transplant patient
Trichosporon asahii is considered an opportunistic pathogen, capable of causing superficial infections in humans and invasive deep-seated infections in immunocompromised hosts.
Tingting Yang, Yajie Fu
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Outbreaks of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in 2 Renal Transplant Centers Linked to a Single Strain of Pneumocystis: Implications for Transmission and Virulence [PDF]
By restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, 2 outbreaks of Pneumocystis pneumonia in renal transplant patients in Europe were shown to be caused by the same strain of Pneumocystis; another outbreak in Japan was caused by a different ...
Fehr, Thomas +14 more
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Background: Pneumocystis jirovecii primarily causes pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals, particularly those living with advanced HIV/AIDS. Extrapulmonary dissemination is uncommon, with bone marrow involvement described in only a handful of cases ...
Diego Alejandro Cubides-Diaz +5 more
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Association between a Specific Pneumocystis jiroveci Dihydropteroate Synthase Mutation and Failure of Pyrimethamine/Sulfadoxine Prophylaxis in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive and -Negative Patients [PDF]
To investigate the possible association between different prophylactic sulfa drugs and the genotype of the Pneumocystis jiroveci dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene, we examined DHPS polymorphisms in clinical specimens from 158 immunosuppressed patients
Bille, Jacques +6 more
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Death after transplantation. An analysis of sixty cases [PDF]
Dahrling, BE +3 more
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An Unusal Case of Pneumocystis Pneumonia - Case report and review [PDF]
Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/OpenA 63 year old woman seeks medical attention for symptoms of fever, headache and increasing dyspnoea.
Kristján Dereksson +2 more
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Se presenta el caso de un paciente masculino, VIH positivo con neumonía por Pneumocystis y una evolución tórpida. Se discuten los hallazgos tanto en la radiografía simple como en la TC de tórax.
Jaime Drewes A +2 more
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