Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Pneumonia, Pneumocystis

"Pneumonia, Pneumocystis" 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.

A pulmonary disease in humans occurring in immunodeficient or malnourished patients or infants, characterized by DYSPNEA, tachypnea, and HYPOXEMIA. Pneumocystis pneumonia is a frequently seen opportunistic infection in AIDS. It is caused by the fungus PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII. The disease is also found in other MAMMALS where it is caused by related species of Pneumocystis.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pneumonia, Pneumocystis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Pneumonia, Pneumocystis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 117 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 1994
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.