Cameroon lacks the capacity for routine Pneumocystis pneumonia (PcP) diagnosis, thus, the
prevalence of Cameroonian exposure to this microbe is unknown. It is known that
Pneumocystis infecting different mammalian host species represent diverse phylogenetic
backgrounds and are now designated as separate species. The highly sensitive nature of
ELISA and the specificity afforded by using human-derived P. jirovecii Msg peptides has
been shown to be useful for serological analysis of human sera. Thus, sera from patients in …