In the next decade, longer survival of patients with cancer and more-aggressive therapies
applied to common conditions, such as asthma and rheumatoid arthritis, will result in a …

SUMMARY A pulmonary cavity is a gas-filled area of the lung in the center of a nodule or
area of consolidation and may be clinically observed by use of plain chest radiography or …

MORE THAN 80 years after its identification in the lungs of rats by Chagas and Carini, and
50 years after its establishment as the cause of epidemic plasma cell pneumonitis in …

Lower respiratory tract infections are characterized by significant morbidity and mortality but
also by a relative inability to establish a specific etiologic agent on clinical grounds alone …

ABSTRACT A prospective study was conducted to determine the prevalence of colonisation
by Pneumocystis jirovecii in 80 consecutive patients who required bronchoscopy and …

Introduction Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic, human-specific fungus that causes
Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP). PCP symptoms are nonspecific. A patient with P. jirovecii …

Prevalence of P. carinii carriers in the general population was estimated at a hospital in
Spain. Simultaneous sputum analysis of 50 patients with chronic bronchial disease by 4 …

1434-4610/02/153/03-303 $15.00/0 been previously cleared of any ectoparasite (potential
vectors), placed them in a new container and waited for three months until they delivered …

Immunomodulators such as tumour necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors are used to treat
autoimmune conditions by reducing the magnitude of the innate immune response …

Pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumonia in immunosuppressed individuals. However, it
has been reported the detection of low levels of Pneumocystis DNA in patients without signs …