Immune dysregulation in Pneumocystis jirovecii infection and the development of a machine learning-based diagnostic model
Background Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) is a life-threatening opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients. A major clinical challenge is the inability of current microbiological diagnostics (e.g., quantitative polymerase chain reaction [qPCR]) to reliably distinguish PJP from Pneumocystis jirovecii...