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Idiopathische eosinofiele bronchopneumonie bij een cavalier king charles spaniël: een casereport en differentiaaldiagnose met Pneumocystis carinii infectie Ghent University

Sarah Opdenakker, Elke Van der Vekens, Malgorzata Jennes, Valérie Bavegems
The present case describes a dog with eosinophilic bronchopneumonia. The dog was presented with a history of coughing and dyspnea at the Department of Small Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University. A presumptive diagnosis of Pneumocystic carinii was made based on signalment, history, clinical examination, blood work and medical imaging, and the dog was treated with trimethoprim-sulfadiazine. Because of lack of ...

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients treated for systemic autoimmune disorders Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven

Marthe Verhaert, D Blockmans, Ellen De Langhe, Liesbet Henckaerts

Objectives: Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic fungus. Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is well known in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected population, but in non-HIV-related immunosuppressed patients, risk factors are largely unknown. We studied the characteristics and outcome of patients treated for systemic autoimmune disorders infected with P. jirovecii, aiming to clarify risk stratification to guide ...

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in African patients Institute of Tropical Medicine

N Clumeck, J Sonnet, H Taelman, F Mascart-Lemone, M De Bruyère, P. Van De Perre, J Dasnoy, L Marcelis, M Lamy, C Jonas, et al.
Between May 1979 and April 1983, 18 previously healthy African patients were hospitalized in Belgium with opportunistic infections (cryptococcosis, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, central-nervous-system toxoplasmosis, progressive cutaneous herpes simplex virus infection, disseminated cytomegalovirus infection, candidiasis, or cryptosporidiosis) or Kaposi's sarcoma, or with both. Ten of them died. During the same period five other patients were ...