Molecular epidemiology linking multihospital clusters of opportunistic Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1058-1059

  Nankivell, Brian J ^a   Firacative, Carolina ^b   Kable, Kathy ^a   Chen, Sharon C A ^b   Meyer, Wieland ^b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BETA TUBULIN GENE; DHPS GENE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ITS1 GENE; ITS2 GENE; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MTLSU GENE; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RENAL GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AUSTRALIA; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84884387736     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit413     Document Type: Letter

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