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You can prevent PCP in children
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Revised: July 1999
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Description:Pneumocystis carinii (NEW-mo-SIS-tis CA-RINnee-eye) pneumonia, or "PCP," is a severe illness that adults and children with HIV or AIDS may get. It is caused by a germ called Pneumocystis carinii. Most children infected with this germ don’t get pneumonia because their immune systems are normal. Children whose immune systems are badly damaged by HIV can get PCP. Children with HIV are less likely to get PCP today than in earlier years. However, PCP is still the most common serious infection among children with AIDS in the United States.
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Revised: July 1999.
Produced by the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
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