TY - JOUR AU - Höcker, Britta AU - Wendt, Constanze AU - Nahimana, Aimable AU - Tönshoff, Burkhard AU - Hauser, Philippe T1 - Molecular Evidence of Pneumocystis Transmission in Pediatric Transplant Unit T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2005 VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 330 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We describe an outbreak of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a pediatric renal transplant unit, likely attributable to patient-to-patient transmission. Single-strand conformation polymorphism molecular typing showed that 3 affected patients had acquired the same 2 strains of Pneumocystis, which suggests interhuman infection. An infant with mitochondriopathy was the probable index patient. KW - Pneumocystis jirovecii KW - pneumonia KW - PCP KW - pediatric renal transplantation KW - single-strand conformation polymorphism KW - inter-human transmission KW - dispatch KW - Germany DO - 10.3201/eid1102.040820 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/2/04-0820_article ER - End of Reference