Höcker Britta, Wendt Constanze, Nahimana Aimable, Tönshoff Burkhard, Hauser Philippe M
University Children's Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 150, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Feb;11(2):330-2. doi: 10.3201/eid1102.040820.
We describe an outbreak of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in a pediatric renal transplant unit, likely attributable to patient-to-patient transmission. Single-strand conformation polymorphism molecular typing showed that 3 affected patients had acquired the same 2 strains of Pneumocystis, which suggests interhuman infection. An infant with mitochondriopathy was the probable index patient.