According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a rare, serious lung infection caused by the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii." PCP patients typically ...

Tulane University researchers have developed a CRISPR-based test that diagnoses Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP)—a life-threatening fungal infection primarily affecting children and ...

PJP was associated with high mortality and low prophylaxis rates among immunocompromised patients without HIV infection.

Pneumocystis carinii is a microscopic fungus that affects the lungs, and is the most important cause of pneumonia in people with HIV/AIDS. People with HIV usually become susceptible to pneumocystis ...

Pneumocystis pneumonia is an opportunistic infection that strikes most often in individuals with diminished immune systems. The corresponding author of the study in mBio ®, Philippe Hauser of the ...

Two different studies of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have revealed that the disease is clustered in specific zip code areas in 2 ...

Few cases of atypical pneumonia will present with severe hypoxemia and this level of chronicity. This type of presentation of PCP was commonly seen early in the HIV epidemic.

“Pneumocystis is likely the most common fungal pneumonia in children and attempts at culturing the organism have largely not been successful.” said corresponding author Dr. Jay Kolls, John W Deming ...

In the period October 1980-May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for biopsy-confirmed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia at 3 different hospitals in Los Angeles, California.

Par Pharmaceutical Gets Rights for Immtech Pharmaceuticals's Pneumocystis Pneumonia Drug WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 12 -- Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. today announced it has entered into an ...

In the 1980s, tens of thousands of cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) occurred in persons with AIDS, making it the most common opportunistic infection encountered in this patient population ...

Samuel A. Bozzette, The Use of Corticosteroids in Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia, The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 162, No. 6 (Dec., 1990), pp. 1365-1369 ...