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Current epidemiology of Pneumocystis pneumoniaAlison Morris
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:1713-20. 2004....
Association of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity and Pneumocystis colonizationAlison Morris
M S, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 2011 Zonal Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:408-13. 2004..001) and was independent of smoking history. We conclude that there is a strong association between Pneumocystis colonization and severity of airflow obstruction in smokers, suggesting a possible pathogenic link with COPD progression...
Outcome of HIV-associated Pneumocystis pneumonia in hospitalized patients from 2000 through 2003Saba Radhi
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and the Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
BMC Infect Dis 8:118. 2008..Epidemiology of PCP in the recent era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is not well known and the impact of HAART on outcome of PCP has been debated...
Current issues in critical care of the human immunodeficiency virus-infected patientAlison Morris
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Crit Care Med 34:42-9. 2006....
Severity and outcome of HIV-associated Pneumocystis pneumonia containing Pneumocystis jirovecii dihydropteroate synthase gene mutationsKristina Crothers
Positive Health Program and Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
AIDS 19:801-5. 2005..The impact of Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly P. carinii) dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene mutations on morbidity and mortality of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in HIV-positive patients is unclear...
Epidemiology of Pneumocystis colonization in familiesLaShonda Spencer
Maternal Child and Adolescent Center for Infectious Diseases and Virology, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Will Rogers Institute Pulmonary Research Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:1237-40. 2008..Using nested polymerase chain reaction of oropharyngeal or nasopharyngeal samples, we detected colonization in 11.4% of HIV-infected adults and in 3.3% of their children, but there was no evidence of clustering...
Improved survival with highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients with severe Pneumocystis carinii pneumoniaAlison Morris
Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA
AIDS 17:73-80. 2003..Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) might alter the course of PCP either via effects on the immune system or through anti- actions; however, HAART has not been studied in patients acutely ill with PCP...
Prevalence and clinical predictors of Pneumocystis colonization among HIV-infected menAlison Morris
Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
AIDS 18:793-8. 2004..The role of subclinical colonization in disease transmission and the effects of Pneumocystis colonization on the lung require further study...
Detailed analysis of the radiographic presentation of Mycobacterium kansasii lung disease in patients with HIV infectionAdithya Cattamanchi
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Chest 133:875-80. 2008..In patients with HIV infection, the radiographic findings of M kansasii lung disease are not well described...
Pneumocystis: a novel pathogen in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?Alison Morris
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
COPD 5:43-51. 2008..Additional studies are needed to confirm the role of Pneumocystis in the pathogenesis of COPD, given that this agent might be a treatable co-factor in disease progression...
Pneumocystis colonization, airway inflammation, and pulmonary function decline in acquired immunodeficiency syndromeKaren A Norris
Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
Immunol Res 36:175-87. 2006..Information gained from these studies will lead to the development of interventions to prevent lung injury associated with Pc colonization and the development of HIV-associated COPD...
An Official ATS Workshop Summary: Recent advances and future directions in pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP)Laurence Huang
Proc Am Thorac Soc 3:655-64. 2006..The workshop included 21 presentations on diverse topics, which are summarized in this report. The workshop participants identified priorities for future research, which are summarized in this document...
Antibody response to Pneumocystis jirovecii major surface glycoproteinKieran R Daly
Research Service 151, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 3200 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45220, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:1231-7. 2006..001). Thus, MsgC shows promise as a serologic reagent and should be tested further in clinical and epidemiologic studies...
Pneumocystis dihydropteroate synthase mutations in patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia who are newly diagnosed with HIV infectionKristina Crothers
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Positive Health Program, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 50:609-10. 2003
Mortality prediction in pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii infection and human immunodeficiency virusTheodore K Marras
Department of Medicine Respiratory, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:793-8. 2004..Withholding treatment in HIV-infected patients with respiratory M. kansasii isolates should only be considered with negative smear microscopy, few positive cultures, and mild immunosuppression...
Pneumocystis colonization in HIV-infected patientsLaurence Huang
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Positive Health Program, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Eukaryot Microbiol 50:616-7. 2003
A prospective, blinded study of quantitative touch-down polymerase chain reaction using oral-wash samples for diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV-infected patientsHans Henrik Larsen
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Infect Dis 189:1679-83. 2004..QTD PCR of oral-wash samples can be an accurate and noninvasive method for diagnosis of PCP...
Intensive care of human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapyAlison Morris
Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 166:262-7. 2002..These patients may have an improved survival because of effects of therapy on variables such as likelihood of non-AIDS-associated admission diagnoses and serum albumin levels...
Epidemiology and clinical significance of pneumocystis colonizationAlison Morris
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Infect Dis 197:10-7. 2008..We also evaluate the clinical significance of Pneumocystis colonization and its relationship to lung disease...
Is there anything new in Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia? Changes in P. jirovecii pneumonia over the course of the AIDS epidemicAlison Morris
Clin Infect Dis 46:634-6. 2008
Intensive care of patients with HIV infection: HAART warming improvement but beware of future HAART (and heart) attacksAlison Morris
Chest 125:1602-4. 2004
Update on the epidemiology and transmission of Pneumocystis cariniiAlison Morris
Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
Microbes Infect 4:95-103. 2002..This review summarizes the current state of knowledge about the epidemiology and transmission of P. carinii and reports on evolving techniques that may improve our understanding of this organism in the future...
