Linking pneumocystis epidemiology, transmission, and virulence

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1445-1447

  De Boer, Mark G J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 84860237110     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis216     Document Type: Note

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