Post-transplant Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia - A re-emerged public health problem?

Kidney International

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 240-243

  Chapman, Jeremy R ^a,b   Marriott, Deborrah J ^c   Chen, Sharon C A ^b   MacDonald, Peter S ^c  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Consensus; Epidemic; Nosocomial; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; PENTAMIDINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFONAMIDE;

AUSTRALIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG COST; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AUSTRALIA; CONSENSUS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFECTION CONTROL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881193725     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2013.212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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