A Cluster of Pneumocystis Infections Among Renal Transplant Recipients: Molecular Evidence of Colonized Patients as Potentialn Infectious Sources of Pneumocystis jirovecii

摘要

Background. Eighteen renal transplant recipients (RTRs) developed Pneumocystis jirovecii infections at the renal transplantation unit of Brest University Hospital (Brest, Brittany, France) from May 2008 through April 2010, whereas no cases of P. jirovecii infection had been diagnosed in this unit since 2002. This outbreak was investigated by identifying P. jirovecii types and analyzing patient encounters.