Abstract:There is a surprise on page 1475 of the 2004 edition of Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment: Pneumocystosis (Pneumocystis jiroveci Pneumonia). 1 In his general conclusions, the author of the chapter states that Pneumocystis carinii is a fungus found in the lungs of both wild and domesticated animals and that Pneumocystis jiroveci, the species that affects humans, is distributed the world over. The source cited for these declarations is an article by Stringer et al., published in 2002 in the journal Emergin… Show more
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