Risk for Pneumocystis carinii Transmission among Patients with Pneumonia: a Molecular Epidemiology Study
- Elodie Senggen Manoloff
- Patrick Francioli
- Patrick Taffé
- Guy van Melle
- Jacques Bille
- Philippe M. Hauser
Publication date
January 2003
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
We report a molecular typing and epidemiologic analysis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases diagnosed in our geographic area from 1990 to 2000. Our analysis suggests that transmission from patients with active PCP to susceptible persons caused only a few, if any, PCP cases in our setting
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