Outbreaks of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in 2 Renal Transplant Centers Linked to a Single Strain of Pneumocystis: Implications for Transmission and Virulence
Outbreaks of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in 2 Renal Transplant Centers Linked to a Single Strain of Pneumocystis: Implications for Transmission and Virulence
Auteur
Sassi, Monica. Critical Care Medicine Department, and
Ripamonti, Chiara. Critical Care Medicine Department, and
Mueller, Nicolas J.. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Yazaki, Hirohisa. AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo
Kutty, Geetha. Critical Care Medicine Department, and
Ma, Liang. Critical Care Medicine Department, and
Huber, Charles. Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Gogineni, Emile. Critical Care Medicine Department, and
Oka, Shinichi. AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo
Goto, Norihiko. Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Japan
Fehr, Thomas. Division of Nephrology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Gianella, Sara. Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Konrad, Regina. Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (Bavarian LGL), Oberschleissheim, Germany
Sing, Andreas. Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (Bavarian LGL), Oberschleissheim, Germany
Kovacs, Joseph A.. Critical Care Medicine Department, and
Type de document
Postprint
Langue
Inglese
Publié dans
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012, vol. 54, no. 10, p. 1437-1444. Oxford University Press
By restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, 2 outbreaks of Pneumocystis pneumonia in renal transplant patients in Europe were shown to be caused by the same strain of Pneumocystis; another outbreak in Japan was caused by a different strain