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To improve pediatricians\u2019 understanding of the condition and aid early accurate diagnoses and therapy, we examined the clinical characteristics of five instances of non-HIV related PJP (NH-PJP) in children and the efficacy of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in its diagnosis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>From January 2020 to June 2022, five children with NH-PJP were admitted to the PICU of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University. We retrospectively summarize the clinical presentation, previous histories, routine laboratory findings, treatment, outcome of regression, and results of mNGS in these five children.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Five male children between the ages of 11 months and 14 years had an acute onset on NH-PJP, three of the children had chest tightness after activity, shortness of breath and paroxysmal dry cough, \u2014 and two had high fever and dry cough. All five of the children had several flocculent high-density pictures in both lungs at the beginning of the disease, and lung auscultation revealed coarse breath sounds in both lungs, one of which was accompanied by a modest quantity of dry rales. PJ nuclear sequences were found in one patient and four patients\u2019 blood and alveolar lavage fluid. All five children were treated with Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) in combination with Caspofungin and corresponding symptomatic treatment. Four patients were cured and one patient died.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Children commonly encounter an initial exposure to NH-PJP, which manifests as a high fever, dry cough, chest discomfort, dyspnea that worsens over time, fast disease progression, and a high death rate. The clinical presentation of children with PJ infection should be taken into consideration along with the results for diagnose. mNGS has higher sensitivity and a shorter detection period compared to identification of PJP.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fcimb.2023.1132472","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,16]],"date-time":"2023-03-16T06:05:12Z","timestamp":1678946712000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Clinical features and diagnostic value of metagenomic next -generation sequencing in five cases of non-HIV related Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in children"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Jiechao","family":"Niu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jiandong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Peisheng","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mengjiao","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Erhu","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"673","DOI":"10.1177\/1060028016650107","article-title":"Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in the non-HIV-Infected population","volume":"50","author":"Avino","year":"2016","journal-title":"Ann. 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