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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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Absolute lymphocyte count as a predictor of Pneumocystis pneumonia in patients previously unknown to have HIV [PDF]

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2012
This is a retrospective review of patients admitted to an inner city community hospital with community-acquired pneumonia who were ultimately diagnosed with AIDS and Pneumocystis. Absolute lymphocyte count in our hospital is available immediately.
Robert P. Ferguson, Aghogho A. Omene
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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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Successful Treatment of Pulmonary and Cerebral Toxoplasmosis Associated with Pneumocystis Pneumonia in an HIV Patient

Diseases, 2017
In both the post and pre combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) era, Pneumocystis jirovecii and Toxoplasma gondii remain common opportunistic infectious agents. The common manifestations are pneumonia for P. jirovecii and brain abscess for T.
Marie-Françoise Rey, Charles Mary, Diane Sanguinetti, Stéphane Ranque, Christophe Bartoli, Coralie L’Ollivier   +5 more
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Pneumonia por Pneumocystis em 107 Doentes com Infecção por VIH Internados no Serviço de Doenças Infecciosas, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa (2002 - 2013)

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2016
Introdução: A pneumonia por Pneumocystis jirovecii é das doenças infecciosas oportunistas mais comuns em infectados por vírus da imunodeficiência humana, sendo, actualmente, em Portugal a infecção definidora de sida mais reportada.
Vilma Grilo, Aida Pereira
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Mortality rate and prognostic factors for poor outcome in HIV-infected Bulgarian patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia over a 3-year period

Problems of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, 2020
Background: In spite of the use of combination antiretroviral therapy and specific prophylaxis, Pneumocystis pneumonia remains one of the most common AIDS-defining disease with high mortality rate.
Nina Yancheva, Dimitar Strashimirov, Maria Nikolova, Ivailo Alexiev, Aleksandra Ivanova, Nina Tsvetkova   +5 more
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Development and Evaluation of Rapid and Accurate CRISPR/Cas13-Based RNA Diagnostics for Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022
BackgroundPneumocystis jirovecii can result in a serious pulmonary infection, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia, in immunocompetent hosts. The diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia has long been a major clinical concern, and there are limitations ...
Yangqing Zhan, Xiaoqing Gao, Shaoqiang Li, Yeqi Si, Yuanxiang Li, Xu Han, Wenjun Sun, Zhengtu Li, Feng Ye   +8 more
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Safety of sulfamethoxazole–trimethoprim for the treatment of bacterial infection in outpatient settings: A systematic review and meta‐analysis with active comparator disproportionality analysis

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Sulfamethoxazole–trimethoprim (SMX‐TMP) is a widely used antibiotic for treating bacterial infections, but its safety in adult outpatients remains understudied. This systematic review and meta‐analysis evaluated the safety profile of SMX‐TMP and identified critical research gaps.
Rebecca Preyra, Lujain Ez Eddin, Fatemeh Ahmadi, Atefeh Jafari, Flory T. Muanda   +4 more
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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia induced by low-dose methotrexate in a patient with chronic urticaria [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2017
Methotrexate has immunosuppressive effects and is administered for refractory chronic urticaria. We present a case of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a patient with refractory chronic urticaria managed by low-dose weekly methotrexate treatment (total
Sheng-Huei Wang, Shih-En Tang, Yu-Huei Li, Kuang-Yu Wei, Chan-Yuan Chang   +4 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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