Outbreaks of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in 2 Renal Transplant Centers Linked to a Single Strain of Pneumocystis: Implications for Transmission and Virulence

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1437-1444

  Sassi, Monica ^a   Ripamonti, Chiara ^a   Mueller, Nicolas J ^b   Yazaki, Hirohisa ^c   Kutty, Geetha ^a   Ma, Liang ^a   Huber, Charles ^a   Gogineni, Emile ^a   Oka, Shinichi ^c,d   Goto, Norihiko ^e   Fehr, Thomas ^b   Gianella, Sara ^b   Konrad, Regina ^f   Sing, Andreas ^f   Kovacs, Joseph A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (Bavarian LGL)   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; JAPAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SWITZERLAND;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SWITZERLAND; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84860245292     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis217     Document Type: Article

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