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Pneumocystis jirovecii airborne transmission between critically ill patients and health care workers

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail (grant nr. EST-2011/1/053) and by the Institut de Médecine et d’Epidémiologie Appliquée.

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  1. Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hôpital Saint-Louis, ECSTRA Team, Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology, UMR 1153 (Center of Epidemiology and Biostatistic Sorbonne Paris Cité, CRESS), INSERM, Paris Diderot Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Sandrine Valade & Elie Azoulay

  2. Paris Diderot University, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

    Sandrine Valade, Francis Derouin & Jean Menotti

  3. Laboratory of Parasitology-Mycology, Amiens University Hospital and University of Picardie, Amiens, France

    Céline Damiani & Anne Totet

  4. Laboratory of Parasitology-Mycology, Saint Louis Teaching Hospital, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, 75010, Paris, France

    Francis Derouin & Jean Menotti

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Valade, S., Azoulay, E., Damiani, C. et al. Pneumocystis jirovecii airborne transmission between critically ill patients and health care workers. Intensive Care Med 41, 1716–1718 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3835-9

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