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Pneumocystis Pneumonia: Importance of Gallium Scan for Early Diagnosis and Description of a New Immunoperoxidase Technique to Demonstrate Pneumocystis carinii 1, 2

1983; American Thoracic Society; Volume: 128; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1164/arrd.1983.128.1.182

2376-3752

Mark Levin, Rima McLeod, Quentin D. Young, Cyril Abrahams, M. Lee Chambliss, Peter D. Walzer, S. A. Kabins,

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Pneumocystis pneumonia presented in a homosexual with fever, a normal chest radiograph, and pulmonary gallium uptake. Bronchial washings yielded Mycobaterium tuberculosis, but despite antituberculosis therapy he remained febrile, and gallium uptake in the lung increased. Subsequently, silver stain of transbronchial lung biopsy obtained 2 months earlier at the time that tuberculosis was diagnosed showed many Pneumocystis cysts in alveolar spaces. In contrast to Pneumocystis cysts in infected lung tissue from other humans, our patient's Pneumocystis cysts reacted more avidly with antiserum to rat Pneumocystis than with antiserum to human Pneumocystis, raising the possibility that organisms that infect humans may have varied surface antigenic properties.