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The shift from pulmonary colonization to Pneumocystis pneumonia.
Medical mycology - 4 May 2021
Le Gal Solène, Bonnet Pierre, Huguenin Antoine, Chapelle Célia, Boulic Pierrick, Tonnelier Jean-Marie, Moal Marie-Christine, Gut-Gobert Christophe, Barnier Aude, Nevez Gilles
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Pulmonary specimen pairs from five patients who presented with pulmonary colonization and later developed Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PcP) were retrospectively examined for P. jirovecii genotyping. A match of genotypes in pulmonary specimen pairs of three patients was observed, whereas a partial match and a mismatch were observed in the fourth and fifth patients, respectively. The genotyping results suggest that the...
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