Article
Pneumocystis carinii: an atypical fungal micro-organism.
Journal of medical and veterinary mycology : bi-monthly publication of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology - 1 Jan 2000
Cailliez J C, Séguy N, Denis C M, Aliouat E M, Mazars E, Polonelli L, Camus D, Dei-Cas E
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this review is to assist mycologists in having a better understanding of Pneumocystis carinii and the disease that it causes. Now considered to be a fungus, P. carinii is unusual in its life cycle and relationship with the host. P. carinii pneumonia (PCP) pathogenesis, immunology a...
Topics
- Animals
- Antifungal Agents
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes
- Disease Reservoirs
- Female
- Genes, Fungal
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
- Macrophages, Alveolar
- Pneumocystis
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
- Terminology as Topic