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Volume 10, Number 10—October 2004
Research

Molecular Evidence of Interhuman Transmission of Pneumocystis Pneumonia among Renal Transplant Recipients Hospitalized with HIV-Infected Patients

Meja Rabodonirina*1, Philippe Vanhems†, Sandrine Couray-Targe‡, René-Pierre Gillibert†, Christell Ganne‡, Nathalie Nizard†, Cyrille Colin‡, Jacques Fabry†, Jean-Louis Touraine§, Guy van Melle¶, Aimable Nahimana¶, Patrick Francioli¶1, and Philippe M. Hauser¶1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France; †Université Claude Bernard and INSEM U271, Lyon, France; ‡Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; §Hôpital Edouard-Herriot, Lyon, France; ¶Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Table

Cases with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) and potential encounters 3 weeks to 3 months before their PCP episode with other patients with active PCP

No. of encounters with patients with active PCP No. patients with active PCP encountered
Presumptive nosocomial PCPb
Date of PCP Underlying diseasea P. jirovecii PCR-SSCP type CD4 counts/mm3 Total With same P. jirovecii type
1/10/94 RTR 1 and 6 c 10 1 0 No
1/11/94 RTR 23 20 1 0 No
11/5/94 RTR Undetermined 5 1 0 No
12/6/94 HIV 6 0 2 2 0 No
12/6/94 RTR 1 5 3 1 Yes
12/13/94 HIV 6 and 7 0 10 1 0 No
1/31/95 HIV 13 and 26 67 1 1 0 No
9/20/95 HIV 1 4 16 2 0 No
10/20/95 HIV 1 18 1 1 0 No
12/28/95 RTR 1 9 1 1 Yes
2/22/96 RTR 1 14 3 2 Yes
2/28/96 HIV 1 0 14 2 1 Yes
5/22/96 RTR 1 8 7 1 Yes
5/23/96 RTR 1 3 3 1 Yes
Total 8 RTRs, 6 HIV 118 5 RTR, 1 HIV

aPCR, polymerase chain reaction; RTR, renal transplant recipient; SSCP, single-strand conformation polymorphism.
bNosocomial PCP was defined as PCP episode with exposure to one or several source patients infected with the same P. jirovecii type 3–12 weeks before the diagnosis.
cData not available.

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1M. Rabodonirina, P. Francioli, and P.M. Hauser contributed equally to the work.

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