Abstract | BACKGROUND: METHODS: From 2001 to 2009, we investigated 21 patients with pneumonia after renal transplantation for the presence of Pneumocystis jirovecii. The laboratory diagnosis was established by Grocott and Giemsa staining methods and Pneumocystis-specific mitochondrial transcribed large subunit nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The PCR was also used for the differentiation of Pneumocystis pneumonia from Pneumocystis carriage. RESULTS: CONCLUSIONS:
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Authors | Matthias Maruschke, Diana Riebold, Martha Charlotte Holtfreter, Martina Sombetzki, Steffen Mitzner, Micha Loebermann, Emil Christian Reisinger, Oliver W Hakenberg |
Journal | Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
(Wien Klin Wochenschr)
Vol. 126
Issue 23-24
Pg. 762-6
(Dec 2014)
ISSN: 1613-7671 [Electronic] Austria |
PMID | 25234937
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Topics |
- Female
- Germany
- Humans
- Kidney Transplantation
(adverse effects)
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pneumocystis carinii
(genetics, isolation & purification)
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
(etiology, microbiology)
- Retrospective Studies
- Treatment Outcome
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