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Refractory flare-up of severe bronchial asthma controlled with mepolizumab due to Pneumocystis pneumonia: a case report

Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2022
Background Biologics dramatically improve symptoms of severe asthma; however, various exacerbating factors may induce flare-up. Pneumocystis spp. have not been reported as a cause of asthma exacerbation during biologic use, although patients with severe ...
Kazuya Takeda, Toshiyuki Sumi, Yuta Nagahisa, Keigo Matsuura, Motoki Sekikawa, Hiroki Watanabe, Yuichi Yamada, Hirofumi Chiba   +7 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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Detection of DNA in samples from patients suspected of bacterial pneumonia- a case-control study [PDF]

, 2002
Background Pneumocystis jiroveci (formerly known as P. carinii f.sp. hominis) is an opportunistic fungus that causes Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised individuals. Pneumocystis jiroveci can be detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
JR Stringer, J Helweg-Larsen, J Helweg-Larsen, AE Wakefield, JA Hunter, SN Huang, P Roux, SH Yale, KA Sepkowitz, SM Arend, A Sing, M Rabodonirina, SL Peglow, SL Vargas, W Chen, SL Vargas, SE Peters, A Dumoulin, G Nevez, M Olsson, T Takahashi, A Sing, E Visconti, HS Oz, OP Settnes, MJ Fine, HH Larsen   +26 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 in the twenty-first century: HIV-infected versus HIV-uninfected patients

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, 2019
Introduction: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) has classically been described as a serious complication in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
C. Cillóniz, C. Dominedò, M. Álvarez-Martínez, A. Moreno, Felipe García, A. Torres, J. Miro   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in people living with HIV: a review

Clinical Microbiology Reviews
SUMMARY Pneumocystis jirovecii is a ubiquitous opportunistic fungus that can cause life-threatening pneumonia. People with HIV (PWH) who have low CD4 counts are one of the populations at the greatest risk of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP).
Emily G. McDonald, Avideh Afshar, Bander Assiri, Tom Boyles, J. Hsu, Ninh B Khuong, Connor Prosty, Miranda So, Zahra N. Sohani, G. Butler-Laporte, Todd C. Lee   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Molecular diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia in immunocompromised patients.

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2019
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a frequent opportunistic infection associated with a high mortality rate. PCP is of increasing importance in non-HIV immunocompromised patients, who present with severe respiratory distress with low ...
H. Guegan, F. Robert-Gangneux
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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A case of Talaromyces marneffei infection that required differentiation from Pneumocystis pneumonia

IDCases, 2023
We report a case of Talaromyces marneffei fungemia in a patient with HIV infection with a history of travelling to southern China. At first, Pneumocystis pneumonia was considered in this case because chest CT images showed typical ground-glass opacity ...
Mieko Tokano, Norihito Tarumoto, Kazuo Imai, Jun Sakai, Masahiro Kodana, Erika Naito, Yoshitaka Uchida, Makoto Nagata, Shigefumi Maesaki   +8 more
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AIDS-defining illnesses at initial diagnosis of HIV in a large Guatemalan cohort [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundAnecdotal evidence suggests that a high proportion of patients diagnosed with HIV in Guatemala present with AIDS. There remain limited data on the epidemiology of AIDS-defining illnesses (ADIs) in Central America.MethodsWe conducted a ...
Cordon, Andrea Alonzo, Melendez, Johanna, Powderly, William G, Reinhardt, Samuel W, Ross, Ian, Spec, Andrej, Villatoro, Carlos Mejia   +6 more
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