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Pneumocystis jiroveci

Medical Definition: A species of PNEUMOCYSTIS infecting humans and causing PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA. It also occasionally causes extrapulmonary disease in immunocompromised patients. Its former name was Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis.
Guide Notes: infection: coord IM with probably PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS (IM) but if not of lungs, coord with PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS (IM) + precoord organ/dis term (IM); coord with pre-coord fungal terms (ANTIGENS, FUNGAL, etc) if pertinent

Pneumocystis jiroveci Medical Definitions and Terms

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