Pneumocystis pneumonia
By: edited by Peter D. Walzer, Melanie T. Cushion.
Contributors: Walzer, Peter D., 1942-; Cushion, Melanie T.
Edition: 3rd ed., rev. and expanded.
Series: Lung biology in health and disease -- 194; Lung biology in health and disease -- v. 194.
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 715
Subjects: Pneumocystis; Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
Other titles: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. c1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The organism; title: Historical overview / Walter T. Hughes; title: Nomenclature and genetic variation of pneumocystis / Scott P. Keely and James R. Stringer; title: Pneumocystis cellular structure / Eduardo Dei-Cas, El Moukhtar Aliouat, and Jean-Charles Cailliez; title: Surface antigens / James R. Stringer; title: Signal transduction and cellular communication / Donald J. Ferguson, Jr. and Alan George Smulian; title: Transmission and epidemiology / Melanie T. Cushion; title: Pneumocystis genome project and genomic organization / Melanie T. Cushion, Bradley E. Slaven, and Alan George Smulian; title: Host defenses/interaction with the host; title: The neonatal period / Beth A. Garvy and Mahboob H. Qureshi; title: Interaction of pneumocystis with alveolar macrophages and epithelial cells / Andrew H. Limper; title: T cells in defense against pneumocystis / James M. Beck; title: Cytokines / Judd E. Shellito and Jay K. Kolls; title: The role of humoral immunity in the defense against pneumocystis / Francis Gigliotti ... [et al.]; title: The pulmonary surfactant system in pneumocystis pneumonia / Michael F. Beers and James M. Beck; title: Mechanisms of lung injury during pneumocystis pneumonia / Terry W. Wright, Allen G. Harmsen, and Francis Gigliotti; title: Infection in humans; title: Clinical presentation and diagnosis of pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV-infected patients / Laurence Huang; title: Pneumocystis pneumonitis in non-HIV-infected patients: update / Walter T. Hughes; title: Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in AIDS patients in the developing world / Powel Kazanjian, David T. Fisk, and Steven R. Meshnick; title: Immunological features of pneumocystis infection in humans / Peter D. Walzer; title: Molecular typing and epidemiological insights / Charles Ben Beard; title: Current regimens for treatment and prophylaxis of pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia / Hans Henrik Larsen, Henry Masur, and Joseph A. Kovacs; title: Lipids / Edna S. Kaneshiro; title: Polyamines, iron, and pneumocystis carinii / Allen B. Clarkson, Jr. and Salim Merali; title: DHFR and IMPDH: enzymes exploitable as drug targets in pneumocystis / Sherry F. Queener; title: Dihydropteroate synthase and cytochrome B: the problem of emerging resistance / Steven R. Meshnick and Powel Kazanjian; title: Development of candidate anti-pneumocystis drugs: in vitro and in vivo approaches / Melanie T. Cushion and Peter D. Walzer.