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. 2003 Jan;9(1):132-4.
doi: 10.3201/eid0901.020141.

Risk for Pneumocystis carinii transmission among patients with pneumonia: a molecular epidemiology study

Elodie Senggen Manoloff  1 , Patrick Francioli, Patrick Taffé, Guy Van Melle, Jacques Bille, Philippe M Hauser
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Risk for Pneumocystis carinii transmission among patients with pneumonia: a molecular epidemiology study

Elodie Senggen Manoloff et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Jan.

Abstract

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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Distribution over time of Pneumocystis carinii types, as determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) – single-strand conformation polymorphism technique (SSCP), observed in Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois. Each occurrence is represented as a bar corresponding to the period of 15 weeks from 3 months before to 3 weeks after PCP diagnosis. Starred types may exhibit excessive clustering (see text).
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