Diagnosis and management of Pneumocystis jirovecii infection

PL White, M Backx, RA Barnes - Expert review of anti-infective …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… excluded, and molecular testing can assist in the detection of … Pneumocystis jirovecii
pneumonia (PcP) was an early … The incidence of PcP associated with HIV has fallen, a result of …

Diagnosing Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia: A review of current methods and novel approaches

M Bateman, R Oladele, JK Kolls - Medical mycology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Because Pneumocystis jirovecii is extremely difficult to culture in vitro, the diagnosis has …
poor sensitivity for detection of PCP, and new molecular methods including polymerase …

Molecular diagnosis and detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DHPS and DHFR genotypes in respiratory specimens from Colombian patients

C Muñoz, A Zuluaga, A Restrepo, A Tobón… - … and infectious disease, 2012 - Elsevier
A total of 98 respiratory specimens from 88 patients suspected of having Pneumocystis jirovecii
pneumonia (PcP) were evaluated using a previously reported nested polymerase chain …

Molecular diagnosis of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in immunocompromised patients

MA Jarboui, A Sellami, H Sellami, F Cheikhrouhou… - Mycoses, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… PCR detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) and sputum
specimens. M, molecular mass marker (100-pb DNA ladder); lane 1, negative control (water); …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in patients with respiratory tract infections

OAT Alli, DO Ogbolu, O Ademola… - North American journal …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… The aim of this study was to detect P. jirovecii in sputum samples from patients suspected of
having … Polymerase chain reaction was showed to be a better method for the detection of P. …

Molecular diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia

I Durand-Joly, M Chabé, F Soula… - FEMS Immunology & …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Pneumocystis jirovecii genotyping should permit to associate specific molecular types with
jirovecii molecular diagnostic methods were fully reviewed recently [12]. For many years we …

Molecular diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii in patients with malignancy: Clinical significance of quantitative polymerase chain reaction

BW Teh, FA Azzato, SM Lingaratnam, KA Thursky… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is increasingly seen in association with the use of
new and potent immunosuppressive therapies in populations not infected with human …

[HTML][HTML] Pneumocystis jiroveciifrom a commensal to pathogen: clinical and diagnostic review

M Sokulska, M Kicia, M Wesołowska, AB Hendrich - Parasitology research, 2015 - Springer
… We also summarize specific and sensitive methods, required for detection of Pneumocystis
… by more specific molecular studies, including research on Pneumocystis epidemiology. …

[PDF][PDF] Pneumocystis jiroveci

J Helweg-Larsen - … molecular microbiology, epidemiology and …, 2004 - researchgate.net
… now enabled genotyping and detection of the organism non… molecular methods to the study
of the infection in order to improve diagnosis and to advance our knowledge of the molecular

[HTML][HTML] … a fully automated molecular assay targeting the mitochondrial small subunit rRNA gene for the detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii in bronchoalveolar lavage …

B Liu, M Totten, S Nematollahi, K Datta… - The Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - Elsevier
… The fungal pathogen Pneumocystis jirovecii causes Pneumocystis pneumonia. Although …
the fully automated ARIES platform for detection of P. jirovecii in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid …