Pneumocystis Pneumonia
Definition
Incidence
Risk Factors
Symptoms
Evaluation
Treatment
specialist
Home Care
cough in adults
cough in children
fever in adults
fever in children
warning signs
wheezing
Complications
Underlying Cause
Transmission
Anatomy
Trusted Sites
Pneumocystis Pneumonia Risk Factors
Risk factors for pneumocystis
pneumonia
include:
AIDS
Chemotherapy:
The administration of medicines that kill
cancer
cells.
High-dose
corticosteroid medications
Malnourished infants
Organ transplant patients
Premature infants
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Pneumocystis Pneumonia Symptoms
Related Topics:
AIDS
Bacterial pneumonia
Breathing difficulty
Cough
Legionnaire's disease
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Pneumonia
Wheezing
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Breathing difficulty
Chest pain
Cough
Wheezing
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Last Updated: Jul 3, 2008
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Stephen J. Schueler, MD
;
John H. Beckett, MD
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D. Scott Gettings, MD
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Pneumocystis Pneumonia References:
Benfield TL, Helweg-Larsen J, Bang D, Junge J, Lundgren JD. Prognostic markers of short-term mortality in AIDS-associated Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Chest. 2001 Mar;119(3):844-51.
Morris A, Lundgren JD, Masur H, et al. Current epidemiology of Pneumocystis pneumonia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Oct;10(10):1713-20.
Peterson JC, Cushion MT. Pneumocystis: not just pneumonia. Curr Opin Microbiol. 2005 Aug;8(4):393-8.
Wohl AR, Simon P, Hu YW, Duchin JS. The role of person-to-person transmission in an epidemiologic study of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. AIDS. 2002 Sep 6;16(13):1821-5.
