P. jirovecii
Mechanisms of Surface Antigenic Variation in the Human Pathogenic Fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii
... single P. jirovecii strain from a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid specimen from a single ...the P. jirovecii cell surface is made of a complex mixture of different surface proteins, with a ...
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... As per American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice guidelines 2019, P. jirovecii infection may develop through airborne route or reactivation of previous infection in organ ...
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The prevalence of Pneumocystis jirovecii among patients with different chronic pulmonary disorders in Ahvaz, Iran
... Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia or Pneumo- cystis pneumonia is a chronic, severe and relatively life-threatening infection of lung ...between P. jirovecii with TB (6) and P. jirovecii ...
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Clinical Significance of Quantifying Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA by Using Real Time PCR in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid from Immunocompromised Patients
... of P. jirovecii DNA detection for explaining the symp- toms observed (24, ...tectable P. jirovecii cysts as a threshold for therapeutic decision- making, especially if the same criteria are ...
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia after elective cardiac surgery caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii
... of P. jirovecii in BAL fluid by histochemical staining and single round PCR strongly support the inference that Pneumocystis had a pathological role in this ...
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Hypercalcaemia preceding diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in renal transplant recipients
... Management with intravenous fluids, increased predniso- lone dose and intravenous bisphosphonate was commenced. His dyspnoea improved and his corrected calcium improved to 2.89 mmol/L and PTH to 4.04 pmol/L at discharge. ...
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Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia and Human Immunodefi-ciency Virus Co-Infection in Western Iran
... Opportunistic infections (OIs) are one of the identified causes of increased immunodeficiency in patients with HIV (11). There are many re- ports on the co-infection of P. jirovecii with other pathogens ...
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Detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii by Quantitative PCR To Differentiate Colonization and Pneumonia in Immunocompromised HIV Positive and HIV Negative Patients
... of P. jirovecii in the spu- tum of healthy immunocompetent individuals, highlighting the fact that subjects without clinical symptoms of PCP can be colo- nized by the fungus ...which P. ...
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A Multiplex Real Time PCR Assay for Identification of Pneumocystis jirovecii, Histoplasma capsulatum, and Cryptococcus neoformans/Cryptococcus gattii in Samples from AIDS Patients with Opportunistic Pneumonia
... DNA extraction. DNA extraction from cultures of H. capsulatum was performed under biosafety level 3 conditions in compliance with Spanish law (Real decreto 664/1997) and following the method described by Buitrago et al. ...
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Improved detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in upper and lower respiratory tract specimens from children with suspected pneumocystis pneumonia using real time PCR: a prospective study
... patients, P. jirovecii DNA-amplifica- tion had a sensitivity of 44% using a nested PCR proto- col compared to trans-bronchial biopsy, [16] increasing to 90% when touch-down real-time PCR was utilised ...
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A rare case of an HIV seronegative AIDS patient with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
... culturing P. jirovecii in vitro, detecting P. jirovecii in airway specimens by microscopic examin- ation remains the gold standard for diagnosing ...
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Multilocus Microsatellite Genotyping Array for Investigation of Genetic Epidemiology of Pneumocystis jirovecii
... draft P. jirovecii genome (32) enables the development of such an ...of P. jirovecii, to study the evolu- tion of sulfa antibiotic resistance, and to evaluate typeability and discriminatory ...
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Clinical Significance and Phylogenetic Relationship of Novel Australian Pneumocystis jirovecii Genotypes
... The UPGMA dendrogram, based on the alignment of 129 haplotypes of P. jirovecii, is shown in Fig. 1. Provided that all gaps were treated as missing data, three of the novel Australian haplotypes (SYD1m, ...
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Infrequent detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii by PCR in oral wash specimens from TB patients with or without HIV and healthy contacts in Tanzania
... Recent studies have indicated that the incidence of symp- tomatic PCP may have been underreported in sub-Saha- ran Africa. P. jirovecii was diagnosed in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid from 9% of ...
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Development of a Real-time PCR assay for Pneumocystis jirovecii on the Luminex ARIES® Platform
... the P. jirovecii assay was ...pooled P. jirovecii clinical positive BAL samples, stored at 2-8°C for eight days and tested daily for 8 ...the P. jirovecii mtLSU rRNA primers ...
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Pneumocystis Workshop: 10th Anniversary Summary
... Pneumocystis genetic diversity, outcome, and transmission. Previous literature reported mutations in DNA sequences within the P. jirovecii genome, with the most extensively stud- ied mutations occurring at ...
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Pneumocystis jirovecii Can Be Productively Cultured in Differentiated CuFi 8 Airway Cells
... for P. jirovecii strongly depends on the locus from which the samples were taken, and it cannot be assumed that the entire tissue and lung lumen contain a homogeneous distribution of fungal parti- ...
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Investigation of <em>Pneumocystis jirovecii</em> colonization in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases in the People’s Republic of China
... Sputum specimens were obtained from patient by spontaneous production. In order to avoid contamination of oral microbe, patients first gargled saline three times, prior to coughing up the sputum from deep respiratory ...
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<p>Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Diagnosis of a Case of <em>Pneumocystis jirovecii</em> Pneumonia in a Kidney Transplant Recipient and Literature Review</p>
... clinical diagnosis of PCP in China. Under the current Chinese Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of HIV/ AIDS (2018), 71 microscopic detection of Pneumocystis cysts or trophozoites in stained respiratory samples is ...
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Epidemiological Outbreaks of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Are Not Limited to Kidney Transplant Recipients: Genotyping Confirms Common Source of Transmission in a Liver Transplantation Unit
... of P. jirovecii among liver transplant ...Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (P1 to P4) which occurred concomitantly in liver recipients are ...
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