Pneumocystis pneumonia
Reversed halo sign in pneumocystis pneumonia: a case report
... Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is the most common serious respiratory complication found in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ...
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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
... Background: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a major cause of hospitalization and mortality in HIV-infected African children. Microbiologic diagnosis relies predominantly on silver or immunofluorescent ...
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Extra corporeal membrane oxygenation to facilitate lung protective ventilation and prevent ventilator-induced lung injury in severe Pneumocystis pneumonia with pneumomediastinum: a case report and short literature review
... There are very few case reports of ECMO therapy for severe respiratory failure due to Pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV/AIDS patients (Table 3) [9, 12–15]. All reported patients required V-V ECMO support for ...
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Impaired CD4-cell immune reconstitution upon HIV therapy in patients with toxoplasmic encephalitis compared to patients with pneumocystis pneumonia as AIDS indicating disease
... Although the development of efficient antiretroviral treatment options has changed the face of the AIDS epidemic in industrialized countries, opportunistic in- fections like toxoplasmic encephalitis or ...
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Lymphocyte apoptosis in murine Pneumocystis pneumonia
... bacterial pneumonia [45,46], the models used were associated with bacteremia, indicating that the infection was not confined to the res- piratory ...whether Pneumocystis pneumonia, an infection ...
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Pneumocystis pneumonia in children in Calabar, Nigeria
... Pneumocystis pneumonia (PJP), initially thought to be rare in this part of the world, has over the years, been diagnosed and treated in our ...severe pneumonia, known or suspected to be HIV ...severe ...
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High Prevalence of Dihydropteroate Synthase Mutations in Pneumocystis jirovecii Isolated from Patients with Pneumocystis Pneumonia in South Africa
... Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), a major opportunistic in- fection in immunocompromised patients, is caused by the fun- gus Pneumocystis jirovecii. The incidence of PCP, which in- creased dramatically ...
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Clinical characteristics of hospital onset Pneumocystis pneumonia and genotypes of Pneumocystis jirovecii in a single tertiary centre in Korea
... Based on these previous observations, PCP may develop as a clinical manifestation of nosocomial pneumonia by means of either reactivation of resident P. jirovecii or de novo infection [11]. Damiani et al. provided ...
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Use of Nasopharyngeal Aspirate for Diagnosis of Pneumocystis Pneumonia
... mens (Table 3). For all four NPA specimens, SSU-PCR was posi- tive, and sequencing of PCR products showed 99 to 100% nucle- otide identity with the P. jirovecii mt SSU rRNA gene (GenBank accession no. HQ228547.1). ...
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Serum based diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia by detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA and 1,3 β D glucan in HIV infected patients: a retrospective case control study
... suspected pneumonia and various underlying immunosuppressive disorders showed that 9/10 of patients with PCP and positive microscopic immunofluorescent analysis of BAL samples had circulating Pj DNA in serum ...
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Clinical characteristics of Pneumocystis pneumonia in non HIV patients and prognostic factors including microbiological genotypes
... by pneumocystis PCR analysis between January 2005 and March 2010 at 2 tertiary care univer- sity hospitals, Kyoto University Hospital and Nagoya University Hospital, in ...
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Clinical Significance and Phylogenetic Relationship of Novel Australian Pneumocystis jirovecii Genotypes
... Pneumocystis jirovecii is an important opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Molecular typing is employed to study this pathogen, as no culture system exists. No Australian P. jirovecii strains ...
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Management of <em>Pneumocystis Jirovecii</em> pneumonia in HIV infected patients: current options, challenges and future directions
... Pentamidine isethionate is effective therapy for Gambian trypanosomiasis, antimony-resistant leishmaniasis, and P. jirovecii pneumonia. Between 1967 and 1984 its use was restricted to treating infections due to ...
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Improved rat model for studying Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
... All of the rats from Charles River Laboratories, although they had moderate numbers of Pncurnocv stis cysts on silver stains, had few trophozoites on impression smears and had gained wei[r] ...
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Opportunistic infections in HIV infected children and its correlation with CD4 count
... Study showed opportunistic infections in 56% of children. Pulmonary TB was the most common opportunistic infection (26%) followed by oral candidiasis (10%), Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was seen in 8% of ...
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Adjunctive corticosteroids for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in patients with HIV infection: a meta analysis of randomised controlled trials
... Funnel plot to evaluate the presence of a publication bias in trials investigating adjunctive corticosteroids for pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in HIV-infected patients. The funnel graph plots the log of ...
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A case of granulomatosis with polyangiitis complicated by cyclophosphamide toxicity and opportunistic infections: choosing between Scylla and Charybdis
... and hypotension. At admission, the patient had to be transferred to an intensive-care unit (ICU) requiring cat- echolamine therapy and mechanical ventilation for five days. Blood cultures remained negative. Sputum ...
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Risk factors for mortality among Human Immuno Virus infected children on antiretroviral therapy
... Advanced WHO clinical stage of HIV, severe immune suppression, low weight and height for age, opportunistic infections like tuberculosis, pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia are risk factors ...
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Detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii by Quantitative PCR To Differentiate Colonization and Pneumonia in Immunocompromised HIV Positive and HIV Negative Patients
... 41. Alvarez-Martínez MJ, Miró JM, Valls ME, Moreno A, Rivas PV, Solé M, Benito N, Domingo P, Muñoz C, Rivera E, Zar HJ, Wissmann G, Diehl ARS, Prolla JC, de Anta MTJ, Gatell JM, Wilson PE, Meshnick SR, Spanish PCP ...
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Evaluation of Diagnostic Value and Epidemiological Implications of PCR for Pneumocystis carinii in Different Immunosuppressed and Immunocompetent Patient Groups
... of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) in a variety of respiratorily distressed patient groups, 574 respiratory samples from 334 patients (89 human im- munodeficiency virus [HIV]-positive patients, 61 ...
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