[Pneumocystosis is an actual infection].

Autor: Kornienko MN, Rybalkina TN, Karazhas NV
Jazyk: ruština
Zdroj: Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii [Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol] 2012 Nov-Dec (6), pp. 115-9.
Abstrakt: Contemporary aspects ofthe problem ofdiseases caused by single-celled yeast fungi Pneumocystisjirovecii are examined. Pneumocystic infection affects children and adults with various manifestations of immunodeficiency, is a HIV-associated infection. Contemporary epidemiologic characteristics of this infection are presented, data on etiology, pathogenesis and clinical presentation ofpneumocystosis are provided, problems of laboratory diagnostics are elucidated. Morphologic, immunobiologic and molecular-genetic methods of detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii causative agent are described.
Databáze: MEDLINE