RT Book, Section
A1 Masur, Henry
A1 Morris, Alison
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141412931
T1 PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS
T2 Harrison's Infectious Diseases, 3e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259835971
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141412931
RD 2024/04/20
AB Pneumocystis  is  an  opportunistic  pathogen  that  is  an  important  cause  of  pneumonia  in  immunocompromised  hosts,  particularly  those  with  HIV  infection  (Chap.  97),  and  in  individuals  with  organ  transplants,  those  with  hematologic  malignancies,  and  those  receiving  immunosuppressive  therapy.  The  organism  was  discovered  in  rodents  in  1906  and  was  initially  believed  to  be  a  protozoan.  Because  Pneumocystis  cannot  be  cultured,  our  understanding  of  its  biology  has  been  limited,  but  molecular  techniques  have  demonstrated  that  the  organism  is  actually  a  fungus.  Formerly  known  as  Pneumocystis  carinii,  the  species  infecting  humans  has  been  renamed  Pneumocystis  jirovecii.