Open AccessGenetic and Epidemiologic Analyses of an Outbreak of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Among Kidney Transplant Recipients in the United States
Author(s) -
Marwan M. Azar,
Elizabeth Cohen,
Liang Ma,
Ousmane Cissé,
Geliang Gan,
Yanhong Deng,
Kristen Belfield,
William S. Asch,
Matthew Grant,
Shana Gleeson,
Alan Koff,
David C. Gaston,
Jeffrey Topal,
Shelly Curran,
Sanjay Kulkarni,
Joseph A. Kovacs,
Maricar Malinis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases/clinical infectious diseases (online. university of chicago. press)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciab474
Subject(s) - belatacept , medicine , pneumocystis jirovecii , immunosuppression , outbreak , pneumocystis pneumonia , kidney transplantation , transplantation , pneumonia , immunology , virology , kidney transplant
Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic fungus that causes Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) in immunocompromised hosts. Over an 11-month period, we observed a rise in cases of PCP among kidney-transplant recipients (KTR), prompting an outbreak investigation.