Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia mortality risk associated with preceding long-term steroid use for the underlying disease: A multicenter, retrospective cohort study

• Kohei Miyake ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: miyakou1723@yahoo.co.jp

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5977-8795

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• Satoru Senoo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Senoo, Ritsuya Shiiba, Junko Itano, Tatsuyuki Kawahara, Tomoki Tamura, Kenichiro Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Ritsuya Shiiba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Senoo, Ritsuya Shiiba, Junko Itano, Tatsuyuki Kawahara, Tomoki Tamura, Kenichiro Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Prefectural Miyazaki Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Junko Itano ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Senoo, Ritsuya Shiiba, Junko Itano, Tatsuyuki Kawahara, Tomoki Tamura, Kenichiro Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Minami-Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

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• Goro Kimura ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Minami-Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

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• Tatsuyuki Kawahara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Senoo, Ritsuya Shiiba, Junko Itano, Tatsuyuki Kawahara, Tomoki Tamura, Kenichiro Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan

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• Tomoki Tamura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Senoo, Ritsuya Shiiba, Junko Itano, Tatsuyuki Kawahara, Tomoki Tamura, Kenichiro Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Iwakuni Clinical Center, Iwakuni, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2480-9029

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• Kenichiro Kudo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Satoru Senoo, Ritsuya Shiiba, Junko Itano, Tatsuyuki Kawahara, Tomoki Tamura, Kenichiro Kudo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

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• Tetsuji Kawamura ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Japan

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• Yasuharu Nakahara ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Japan

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• Hisao Higo ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Daisuke Himeji ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Miyazaki Prefectural Miyazaki Hospital, Miyazaki, Japan

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• Nagio Takigawa ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of General Internal Medicine 4, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan

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• Nobuaki Miyahara ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ GK, TK, YN, HH, DH, NT, and NM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Okayama Respiratory Disease Study Group (ORDSG)

  ¶Membership of the Okayama Respiratory Disease Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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