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There are also some organisms that infect the lung, such as Pneumocystis carinii, which is associated with HIV and can cause bullae.
Scientific American 2009
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There are also some organisms that infect the lung, such as Pneumocystis carinii, which is associated with HIV and can cause bullae.
Scientific American 2009
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Gottlieb noticed that otherwise healthy young men were gasping for air and dying from infection with the usually benign pneumonia parasite, Pneumocystis carinii.
Laurie Garrett: AIDS at 30: The Real Story Laurie Garrett 2011
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The report described an illness of gay men from the Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City areas who had a strange pneumonia, Pneumocystis pneumonia, usually seen in cancer patients.
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The report described an illness of gay men from the Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York City areas who had a strange pneumonia, Pneumocystis pneumonia, usually seen in cancer patients.
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Gottlieb noticed that otherwise healthy young men were gasping for air and dying from infection with the usually benign pneumonia parasite, Pneumocystis carinii.
Laurie Garrett: AIDS at 30: The Real Story Laurie Garrett 2011
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Far away from New York, the sudden appearance of Pneumocystis carinii was also raising eyebrows at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The eighth case drew particular alarm and interest: this man, with lesions on his head and back, was also diagnosed with a rare pneumonia called PCP caused by the organism Pneumocystis carinii.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Pneumocystis pneumonia only occurs in humans when the immune system is severely compromised.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The annihilation of the immune system by the cytotoxic drugs allowed peculiar infections to sprout up: the first adult case of a rare form of pneumonia, caused by an organism, Pneumocystis carinii (PCP), was observed in a patient receiving MOPP (the same pneumonia, arising spontaneously in immune-compromised gay men in 1981, would auger the arrival of the HIV epidemic in America).
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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