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Case Reports
. 2020 Oct:99:119-121.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.061. Epub 2020 Aug 5.

Concurrent COVID-19 and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a severely immunocompromised 25-year-old patient

Pavan Bhat  1 , Mandee Noval  2 , James B Doub  3 , Emily Heil  2
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Case Reports

Concurrent COVID-19 and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a severely immunocompromised 25-year-old patient

Pavan Bhat et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: Acquired immune deficiency; COVID-19; HIV; Pneumocystis jirovecii; SARS-CoV-2.

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Figure 1
Chest X-ray and CT of the chest on presentation. (A) Chest X-ray showing a large right pneumothorax and extensive interstitial disease. (B) CT chest coronal view showing apical cystic changes, diffuse ground-glass opacities, dense consolidation, and pneumothorax. (C) Axial view of predominant apical cystic changes. (D) Axial view showing diffuse ground-glass opacities and right pneumothorax with the chest tube present.
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