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Pneumocystis jirovecii multilocus genotyping profiles in Northern Ireland.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Aug 2013
Curran Tanya, McCaughey Conall, Coyle Peter V
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumonia, a severe opportunistic infection in immunosuppressed patients that has both person-to-person airborne transmission and environmental transmission as important routes of infection. An increasing incidence of P. jirovecii in Northern Ireland prompted a detailed epidemiological and molecular review that included enhanced surveillance on all lower respiratory specimens....
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