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Pneumocystosis

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Intraocular Inflammation

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Pneumocystis was first isolated independently by Carlos Chagas in 1909 and by Antonio Carinii in 1910. Pneumocystis was identified as a new species in 1912 by Delanoë and Delanoë, who proposed the species name carinii. Initially misclassified as a protozoan, by 1988 Pneumocystis was shown to be a yeast-like fungus based on both morphologic and genetic factors. Within the Pneumocystis genus, multiple species have been described. The species that infects humans have recently been designated P. jirovecii, in honor of Otto Jirovec, who described human PCP in 1952. This reflects a recent nomenclature change from P. carinii, which is now the designation for the species that infects rats. The term “PCP” was retained, however, and refers to Pneumocystis pneumonia.

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Supported in part by the San Francisco Retinal Foundation and the Pacific Vision Foundation.

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  1. Retina Consultants San Diego, 9850 Genesee Ave. Ste. 700, La Jolla, CA, 92130, USA

    Nikolas J. S. London MD

  2. The Uveitis Service, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA,, USA

    Emmett T. Cunningham Jr. MD, PhD, MPH

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA,, USA

    Emmett T. Cunningham Jr. MD, PhD, MPH

  4. The Francis I. Proctor Foundation, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA,, USA

    Emmett T. Cunningham Jr. MD, PhD, MPH

  5. West Coast Retina Medical Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA

    Emmett T. Cunningham Jr. MD, PhD, MPH

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  1. Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Manfred Zierhut

  2. Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eyes Hospital, Department of Medical Retina, UCL, London, United Kingdom

    Carlos Pavesio

  3. School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University Graduate, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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  4. University of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  5. USC Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Narsing A. Rao

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London, N.J.S., Cunningham, E.T. (2016). Pneumocystosis. In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_135

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