Czechoslovakian microbiologist who described together with his colleague Vanek that a separate human species of Pneumocystis exists (later by Frenkel called Pneumocystis jirovecii), which is different from P. carinii, which was believed to exist in humans and rodents.
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Jirovec, Otto (1907–1972). In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_3530
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