Outbreak of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Renal and Liver Transplant Patients Caused by Genotypically Distinct Strains of Pneumocystis jirovecii

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

Outbreak of Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Renal and Liver Transplant Patients Caused by Genotypically Distinct Strains of Pneumocystis jirovecii

2013

Andreas A. Rostved
Monica Sassi
Jørgen A. L. Kurtzhals
Søren Schwartz Sørensen
Allan Rasmussen
Christian Ross
Emile Gogineni
Charles Huber
Geetha Kutty
Joseph A. Kovacs
Jannik Helweg-Larsen

Background An outbreak of 29 cases of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) occurred among renal and liver transplant recipients (RTR and LTR) in the largest Danish transplantation centre between 2007 and 2010, when routine PCP prophylaxis was not used.

Keywords:

Kidney transplantation
Liver transplantation
Pneumocystis pneumonia
Transplantation
Immunology
Contact tracing
Genotype
Pneumocystis jirovecii
Outbreak
Virology
Medicine
pneumocystis carinii

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