Molecular evidence of interhuman transmission in an outbreak of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia among renal transplant recipients

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Gianella, S ^a   Haeberli, L ^a   Joos, B ^a   Ledergerber, B ^a   Wuthrich R P ^a   Weber, R ^a   Kuster, H ^a   Hauser, P M ^b   Fehr, T ^a   Mueller, N J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemoprophylaxis; Infection; Interhuman transmission; Kidney transplantation; PCP; Pneumocystis

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149158809     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00447.x     Document Type: Article

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