Volume 10, Number 10, October 2004

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

Meja Rabodonirina,* 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,¶ and Philippe M. Hauser¶
*Hôpital de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, France; †Université Claude Bernard and INSERM U271, Lyon, France; ‡Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; §Hôpital Edouard-Herriot, Lyon, France; and ¶Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Figure 4. Potential encounters compatible with nosocomial interhuman transmission of Pneumocystis jirovecii at building A of the Edouard-Herriot Hospital (see Methods). Thicker parts of solid lines represent periods of hospitalization. Each encounter or consecutive encounters are figured by an arrow with the head indicating the direction of the presumed transmission, the number of encounters being indicated close to each arrow. *Anti-PCP prophylaxis was suboptimal. D, death. G, graft. R, rejection episode. RTR, renal transplant recipient. PCPnoso, nosocomial case.

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