Increasing frequency of pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in renal transplant recipients in the United Kingdom: Clonal variability, clusters, and geographic location

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 307-308

  Thomas, Sherine ^a   Vivancos, Roberto ^b   Corless, Caroline ^a   Wood, Grahame ^c   Beeching, Nick J ^a   Beadsworth, Mike B J ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLONAL VARIATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; MORTALITY; PERSON TO PERSON TRANSMISSION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 79960807567     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir329     Document Type: Letter

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