| laboratory diagnosis and occurrence of pneumocystis carinii. | pneumocystis carinii is an opportunistic pathogen causing life threatening pneumonia (pcp) in immunosuppressed patients and particularly among aids patients. whether the infection results from reactivation or reinfection is debated. since methods for in vitro cultivation still are not successful, the diagnosis is dependent on direct demonstration of the organism in respiratory specimen. in this thesis laboratory diagnostic methods in terms of staining, sampling, antibody detection and dna amplif ... | 1994 | 8059227 |