Pneumocystis carinii

"Pneumocystis carinii" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pneumocystis carinii" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pneumocystis carinii" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 18 publications over 13 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2006 and 2008 and 2011 and 2016 and 2018
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