Which statement does not apply to pneumocystis pneumonia and its causative organism, Pneumocystis jirovecii?
A) HIV- AIDS patient are high- risk for this infection.
B) The organism has some characteristics found in protozoans rather than fungi.
C) Serological evidence suggests that most people are exposed to the organism in early childhood.
D) Like all other pathogenic fungi, the reservoir is soil.
E) The fungus does not make spores.
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