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Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing in Diagnosis of a Case of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in a Kidney Transplant Recipient and Literature Review.

Jie ChenTing HeXiujun LiXue WangLi PengLiang Ma
Published in: Infection and drug resistance (2020)
This case report supports the value of mNGS in diagnosing PCP, highlights the inadequate sensitivity of conventional diagnostic methods for PCP, and calls for the need to add PCP prophylaxis to the current Diagnosis and Treatment Guideline of Invasive Fungal Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients in China.
Keyphrases
  • case report
  • antibiotic resistance genes
  • gene expression
  • circulating tumor
  • cell wall
  • circulating tumor cells