Pneumocystis jirovecii Transmission from Immunocompetent Carriers to Infant

We report a case of Pneumocystis jirovecii transmission from colonized grandparents to their infant granddaughter. Genotyping of P. jirovecii showed the same genotypes in samples from the infant and her grandparents. These findings support P. jirovecii transmission from immunocompetent carrier adult...

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Autores principales: Rivero, Laura, de la Horra, Carmen, Montes-Cano, Marco A., Rodríguez-Herrera, Alfonso, Respaldiza, Nieves, Friaza, Vicente, Morilla, Rubén, Gutiérrez, Sonia, Varela, José M., Medrano, Francisco J., Calderón, Enrique J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008
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Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18598635
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1407.071431

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