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pneumocystis

n. (context pathology English) An infection of the lungs by the parasitic protozoan ''Pneumocystis carinii''

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Three months later, the same day I was admitted as an outpatient for some routine diagnostic tests, Robert was admitted into the hospital with pneumocystis carinii, and pronounced to have AIDS.

AIDS patient with pneumocystis carnipneumonia who was allergic to Septra, the drug of choice, and a young woman with a recurrent kidney infection--three more cases had arrived on her desk.

He asked what Kaposi's sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii could possibly have in common.