Pneumocystis jirovecii transmission from immunocompetent carriers to infant

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1116-1118

  Rivero, Laura ^a,b   De La Horra, Carmen ^a,b   Montes Cano, Marco A ^a,b   Rodríguez Herrera, Alfonso ^a   Respaldiza, Nieves ^b   Friaza, Vicente ^b   Morilla, Rubén ^b   Gutiérrez, Sonia ^a   Varela, José M ^a,b   Medrano, Francisco J ^a,b   Calderón, Enrique J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GRANDPARENT; HUMAN; INFANT; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 46349091780     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1407.071431     Document Type: Article

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