Clusters of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: Analysis of person-to-person transmission by genotyping

QJM: An International Journal of Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 813-820

  Helweg Larsen, J ^a   Tsolaki, A G ^b   Miller, R F ^c   Lundgren, B ^d   Wakefield, A E ^b,e  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HEMATOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OPERON; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032413401     PISSN: 00335622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qjmed/91.12.813     Document Type: Article

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