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- pneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims)
How To Use pneumocystis carinii pneumonia In A Sentence
- Twenty-five have suffered symptoms, but only 13 have developed "AIDS-defining" illnesses such as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Aids Or Chronic Fatigue?
- She would also be encouraged to begin prophylaxis for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia with Bactrim.
- AIDS patients who survive early bouts with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and other once lethal infections are now falling prey to an array of other maladies. Aids The Next Ten Years
- The beneficial role of adjunctive corticosteroids have been demonstrated in miliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis and pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
- In February 1987, Chalk was hospitalized with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and was diagnosed as having AIDS. Law In The Health and Human Services
- Shortly after returning to Antwerp, Piot read a report from Los Angeles describing five young men -- all "active homosexuals" -- who'd suffered months of thrush, fevers and weight loss before dying of pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. The Life of a Virus Hunter
- He is being treated for pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
- The first federal announcement, 30 years ago this week, concerned "five young men, all active homosexuals," with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or P.C.P., a disease "almost exclusively limited to severely immunosuppressed patients. NYT > Global Home
