Pneumocystis jirovecii
"Pneumocystis jirovecii" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D045382
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.107.730.700
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| Concept/Terms |
Pneumocystis jirovecii- Pneumocystis jirovecii
- Pneumocystis jirovecius
- jirovecii, Pneumocystis
- jirovecius, Pneumocystis
- Pneumocystis jiroveci
- Pneumocystis jirovecus
- jiroveci, Pneumocystis
- jirovecus, Pneumocystis
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