Foreword

In August 1982 as a brand new intern in Chicago, I worked with a medical team that admitted a young man with pneumonia to the hospital. His pneumonia, unresponsive to the usual antibiotic regimen of the day, was puzzling to all. His young wife and 2 children at the bedside sat and wondered why their husband and father was such a medical mystery to the doctors. A subsequent bronchoscopy revealed Pneumocystis carnii pneumonia, a shocking revelation to all of us in a nontransplant, noncancer patient.
Source: Disease a Month - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research