[bannie]

The doctor told my sister that there was a specific kind of pneumonia which overcame AIDS patients. Any doctor who read the report would understand that it indicated the death of an AIDS patient, but most would just see that he died of pneumonia.

Euphemisms are your friends.

[najida]

Pneumocystis (Carinii) Jiroveci (PCP)

[rdcrisp]

the strain is pneumocystis carinii

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Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is an opportunistic infection that occurs in immunosuppressed populations, primarily patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection. The classic presentation of nonproductive cough, shortness of breath, fever, bilateral interstitial infiltrates and hypoxemia does not always appear.