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Case Reports
. 1999;31(2):203-6.

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a 15-year-old with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis

T M Eppinger  1 , J E Aronson, L S Fonacier, C Cunningham-Rundles
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  • PMID: 10447335
Case Reports

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a 15-year-old with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis

T M Eppinger et al. Scand J Infect Dis. 1999.

Abstract

A 15-y-old male patient with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMCC) and new onset adrenal insufficiency developed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). The literature on infectious complications of CMCC is reviewed and clinical and laboratory characteristics of the only previously described case of PCP in CMCC are compared with those of the patient reported here.

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