Outbreak of pneumocystis pneumonia in renal and liver transplant patients caused by genotypically distinct strains of Pneumocystis jirovecii

Transplantation

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 834-842

  Rostved, Andreas A ^a   Sassi, Monica ^b   Kurtzhals, Jørgen A L ^a,c   Sørensen, Søren Schwartz ^a   Rasmussen, Allan ^a   Ross, Christian ^a   Gogineni, Emile ^b   Huber, Charles ^b   Kutty, Geetha ^b   Kovacs, Joseph A ^b   Helweg Larsen, Jannik ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Liver transplant; Outbreak; Pneumocystis jirovecii; Pneumocystis pneumonia; Renal transplant

Indexed keywords

MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DENMARK; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; VIREMIA;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CONTACT TRACING; CROSS INFECTION; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84888138391     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182a1618c     Document Type: Article

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