Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis
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Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis.
Extrapulmonary pneumocystosis is an exceedingly rare complication of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). Prior to the advent of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) epidemic, only 16 cases of extrapulmonary pneumocystosis in individuals who were immunocompromised by a variety of underlying diseases had been reported. Since the beginning of the HIV-1 and related PCP epidemic, at lea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.10.3.401