1. It is still PCP that can stand for Pneumocystis pneumonia: Appeal for generalized use of only one acronym
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Solène Le Gal, Gilles Nevez, Olga Matos, Robert F. Miller, Anne Totet, Enrique J. Calderón, Groupe d'Étude des Interactions Hôte-Pathogène (GEIHP), Université d'Angers (UA), SFR UA 4208 Interactions Cellulaires et Applications Thérapeutiques (ICAT), Laboratoire de Parasitologie et Mycologiede [CHRU Brest], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest), and Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Medicina
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0301 basic medicine ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Pneumocystis pneumonia ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Terminology as Topic ,parasitic diseases ,medicine ,Pneumocystis jirovecii ,Abbreviations as Topic ,Acronym ,biology ,Pneumocystis ,business.industry ,Pneumonia, Pneumocystis ,PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,3. Good health ,respiratory tract diseases ,PCP ,Pneumocystis species ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Pneumocystis carinii ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,business ,Host specificity - Abstract
Twenty-years ago, considering the host specificity of Pneumocystis species, the human-derived Pneumocystis, Pneumocystis carinii formae specialis hominis, was renamed Pneumocystis jirovecii. Pneumocystis carinii formae specialis carinii was finally renamed Pneumocystis carinii and kept for the species derived from Rattus norvegicus. P. jirovecii is now widely used by most authors. The PCP acronym that initially referred to “Pneumocystis cariniipneumonia” was contemporaneously redefined to stand for Pneumocystispneumonia in order to avoid changing the acronym of the name of the disease that clinicians have used for several decades. Using analysis of multidata bases on PubMed, we have noted a recent acceleration in the use of PJP for Pneumocystis jiroveciipneumonia, which may be grammatically correct but not in accordance with retaining PCP, which was proposed in the early 2000s. Through this reminder, in order to standardize the literature on P. jirovecii, we plead for the use of only one acronym, PCP. Lay Summary Through this reminder on Pneumocystis nomenclature, we plead for the use of only one acronym, PCP, the retention of which was proposed in the early 2000s, and which currently stands for Pneumocystispneumonia.
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- 2021