Risk forPneumocystis cariniiTransmission among Patients with Pneumonia: a Molecular Epidemiology Study
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- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 9 (1) , 132-134
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0901.020141
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.Keywords
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