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Table 1 Coinfection of Pneumocystis jirovecii and members of herpesviridae in immunocompromised patients

From: A co-infection of varicella-zoster virus and Pneumocystis jirovecii in a non-HIV immunocompromised patient: a case report

Author/ Year

Age

Sex

Underlying disease

Herpesviridae

Symptoms or diagnosis

Prognosis

Kosmidis/ 1980

unknown (child)

unknown

acute leukemia

CMV

Dx: interstitial pneumonia

death

Vuorinen/ 2004

31

male

hypogammaglobulinemia

HHV-6

Dx; interstitial pneumonia

Symptoms: fever, non-productive cough, dyspnea

full recovery

Vetter/ 2010

70

female

large-vessel vasculitis

CMV

Dx: pneumonia

fever, nausea, dyspnea

full recovery

  1. Abbreviations: Dx diagnosis, CMV cytomegalovirus, HHV-6 human herpesvirus 6