This type of pneumonia is rare but can be dangerous for those with weakened immune systems. Treatment and diagnosis processes have come a long way in the last few decades. Pneumocystis pneumonia ...

Kylie Jenner's hairstylist Jesus Guerrero's cause of death was revealed as fungal infections, nearly three months after his sudden passing at 34 ...

In the first week of June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an article in its Morbidity and ...

Jesus Guerrero, whom Kylie Jenner called "a light in my life," died from Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and cryptococcosis. Here's what those are.

More information: CRISPR-mediated detection of Pneumocystis transcripts in bronchoalveolar, oropharyngeal, and serum specimens for Pneumocystis pneumonia diagnosis, Journal of Clinical ...

Pneumocystis jerovici is a fungus that is the most important cause of pneumonia in people with HIV/AIDS. People with HIV usually become susceptible to pneumocystis pneumonia when their CD4 cell count ...

The infection cause is however still referred to pneumocystis pneumonia and retains the abbreviation of PCP. Before the emergence of the HIV epidemic, PCP was only seen patients who had badly ...

Levine says that fungi can also cause pneumonia. Pneumocystis jirovecii and Histoplasma capsulatum are the types of fungi most commonly responsible. The cause of the disease also determines ...

a fungus that causes Pneumocystis pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients and children. This innovation overcomes a major hurdle in fungal research — the difficulty of growing this pathogen outside of ...

The Los Angeles medical examiner has ruled Guerrero’s manner of death as natural, brought on by AIDS-related complications.