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Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in a Patient with Interstitial Lung

Author(s) -

Soykan Özkoç,

Aylin Özgen Alpaydın,

Songül Bayram Delıbaş,

Ceren Ergüden,

Atilla Akkoçlu

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

turkish journal of parasitology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 2146-3077

pISSN - 1300-6320

DOI - 10.5152/tpd.2015.3476

Subject(s) - pneumocystis jirovecii , bronchoalveolar lavage , immunosuppression , pneumocystis carinii , medicine , pneumocystis pneumonia , pneumonia , opportunistic infection , lung , interstitial lung disease , coinfection , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , viral disease

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii (P. jirovecii) is an opportunistic pulmonary infection that occurs in immunocompromised patients. Here, a 49-year-old female patient who was admitted to our hospital with respiratuary distress and whose bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid specimens had P. jirovecii and Aspegillus fumigatus was presented. She had been treated with corticosteroids because of interstisial lung disease and she was also diabetic. It is important to define the coinfection developed in the presence of immunosuppression.

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