Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-345 Wroclaw, Poland.
Unit of Medical Parasitology, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1349-008 Lisboa, Portugal; Environmental Health Institute, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal.
Trends Parasitol. 2021 Oct;37(10):859-862. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2021.07.010. Epub 2021 Aug 4.
The clinical picture of the fungal disease, Pneumocystis pneumonia, resembles the course of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), presenting a diagnostic challenge in the pandemic era. We discuss the concern of Pneumocystis jirovecii and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) coinfection, their similarities, and the impact of immunosuppression, with a suggested diagnostic pathway for their suspected coinfection.
真菌病肺囊虫肺炎的临床表现类似于 2019 年冠状病毒病(COVID-19)的病程,在大流行时代构成了诊断挑战。我们讨论了耶氏肺孢子菌和严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒 2(SARS-CoV-2)合并感染的担忧、它们的相似之处以及免疫抑制的影响,并提出了疑似合并感染的诊断途径。