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It is still PCP that can stand for Pneumocystis pneumonia: Appeal for generalized use of only one acronym
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Medical Mycology, Medical Mycology, Oxford University Press, 2021, ⟨10.1093/mmy/myab024⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press, 2021.
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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.
- Subjects :
- 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
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13693786 and 1365280X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Medical Mycology, Medical Mycology, Oxford University Press, 2021, ⟨10.1093/mmy/myab024⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....999d116562cc77e8bcac19c0d56a36b8