"Pneumocystis carinii" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The prototype species of PNEUMOCYSTIS infecting the laboratory rat. It was formerly called Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. carinii. Strains that infect humans and cause PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA were originally classified as Pneumocystis jirovecii or Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis.
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D045363
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.107.730.650
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pneumocystis carinii" by people in Profiles.
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Outcomes of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia infections in pediatric heart transplant recipients. Pediatr Transplant. 2011 Dec; 15(8):844-8.
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Thermodynamic stability and structural features of the J4/5 loop in a Pneumocystis carinii group I intron. Biochemistry. 2003 Dec 09; 42(48):14184-96.