Talk:Pneumocystis jirovecii

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Jiroveci or Jirovecii[edit]

It's named after Jirovec and so adding an "i" makes jiroveci, the only reason carinii has two "i"s is the guys name was carini, also a non-scientific google search of each term yields multifold more results for jioveci over jirovecii... anyone wanna back me to change the article? maybe with proof of how the literature originally wanted to call it?

Scientific namings of species are governed by international codes of nomenclature and not google searches. The International Code of Botanical Nomenclature [ICBN] covers fungi, and Pneumocystis is a fungus. ICBN says that two "i"s are required in most cases, hence "jirovecii" and "carinii". Previously Pneumocystis was thought to be a protozoan and under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature only one "i" was required. That is why "jiroveci" is commonly found in old published papers and web sites. This was explained in Wikipedia already. Heliocybe (talk) 16:38, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia says jiroveci has priority since 2005 because of a change in the Code (ICBN), so the actual valid name is jiroveci and the name of the page should be changed to jiroveci (one i).--Miguelferig (talk) 11:18, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking to move the article, but according to this authoritative-looking publication from 2009, "the correct and valid name under ICBN is Pneumocystis jirovecii". It is also spelled this way by NCBI Taxonomy, ITIS Catalogue of Life, and Index Fungorum. I can't find any authorities advocating the single-i spelling. —Pengo 23:40, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Medical advice[edit]

As per WP:MEDICAL, Wikipedia does not give medical advice. Can someone please change this line in the article so that it isn't written as such:

Drug of choice is TMP-SMX, pentamidine, or dapsone, make sure to check CD4 Tcell drop below 200.

—Pengo 23:26, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Clinical significance[edit]

Section is needed! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.206.156.72 (talk) 16:35, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]