A cluster of pneumocystis infections among renal transplant recipients: Molecular evidence of colonized patients as potential infectious sources of pneumocystis jirovecii

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Le Gal, Solène ^a,c   Damiani, Céline ^f,g   Rouillé, Amélie ^a   Grall, Anne ^d   Tréguer, Laetitia ^d   Virmaux, Michèle ^a   Moalic, Elodie ^a,c   Quinio, Dorothée ^a,c   Moal, Marie Christine ^d   Berthou, Christian ^b,e   Saliou, Philippe ^e   Le Meur, Yann ^b,d   Totet, Anne ^f,g   Nevez, Gilles ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BREST   (France)

^b Universite de Brest   (France)

^c SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

^d Department of Nephrology   (France)

^e BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84858141612     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir996     Document Type: Article

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