1Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Shuang Ho Hospital and Division of Pulmonary Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, Taipei 11031, Taiwan 2Airway Disease, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Dovehouse Street, London SW7 6LY, UK 3Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Wanglang Street, Bangkok 107...

The spectrum of lung diseases in HIV-infected patients encompasses complications typical for HIV such as tuberculosis, bacterial pneumonia, lymphomas and HIVassociated pulmonary hypertension, but also includes typical everyday pulmonary problems like acute bronchitis, asthma, COPD and bronchial carcinomas (Table 1). Classical diseases such as PCP have become rarer as a result of HAART and chemo...

pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumocystis pneumonia (pcp) in immunocompromised patients with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. colonization with this fungus may stimulate pulmonary inflammation or lead to pcp in susceptible patients. the epidemiology of this infection and routs of its transmission has poorly studied in iran. we examined pneumosystis colonization in patients with various ...