Abstract
We report a molecular typing and epidemiologic analysis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases diagnosed in our geographic area from 1990 to 2000. Our analysis suggests that transmission from patients with active PCP to susceptible persons caused only a few, if any, PCP cases in our setting.
Highlights
We report a molecular typing and epidemiologic analysis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases diagnosed in our geographic area from 1990 to 2000
Different molecular P. carinii types were found in members of three different couples diagnosed with PCP [7], and the types were often different within clusters of PCP cases [8,9]
Using molecular typing and epidemiologic analysis, we investigated the possibility of transmission of P. carinii between PCP patients who were seen in our region during recent years
Summary
We report a molecular typing and epidemiologic analysis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases diagnosed in our geographic area from 1990 to 2000. Using molecular typing and epidemiologic analysis, we investigated the possibility of transmission of P. carinii between PCP patients who were seen in our region (about 500,000 inhabitants) during recent years.
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