Pneumocystis jirovecii in the air surrounding patients with Pneumocystis pulmonary colonization

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 137-142

  Le Gal, Solène ^a,b   Pougnet, Laurence ^c   Damiani, Céline ^c,d   Fréalle, Emilie ^e   Guéguen, Paul ^b,f   Virmaux, Michèle ^a   Ansart, Séverine ^a,b   Jaffuel, Sylvain ^a   Couturaud, Francis ^a,b   Delluc, Aurélien ^a,b   Tonnelier, Jean Marie ^g   Castellant, Philippe ^b   Le Meur, Yann ^b   Le Floch, Gaétan ^a   Totet, Anne ^c,d   Menotti, Jean ^a,h   Nevez, Gilles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^b BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Military Teaching Hospital Clermont Tonnerre   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^e AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^g Universite de Brest   (France)

^h SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Airborne transmission; Colonization; Exhalation; Pneumocystis jirovecii

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUDARABINE; FUNGAL DNA; RITUXIMAB; TEMOZOLOMIDE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 26S;

ADULT; AGED; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE FUNGUS; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; VERY ELDERLY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84929050435     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.01.004     Document Type: Article

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