An outbreak of Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia with 1 predominant genotype among renal transplant recipients: Interhuman transmission or a common environmental source?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1143-1149

  De Boer, Mark G J ^a,b   Van Coppenraet, Lesla E S Bruijnesteijn ^a   Gaasbeek, Andre ^b   Berger, Stefan P ^b   Gelinck, Luc B S ^a   Van Houwelingen, Hans C ^b   Van Den Broek, Peterhans ^a   Kuijper, Ed J ^a   Kroon, Frank P ^a   Vandenbroucke, Jan P ^b  

^a Center of Infectious Diseases   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN; DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER GRAFT; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STANDARD; CROSS INFECTION; GENETICS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; VIROLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 34247194249     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513198     Document Type: Article

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