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Clusters of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: analysis of person-to-person transmission by genotyping.
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians - 1 Dec 1998
Helweg-Larsen J, Tsolaki A G, Miller R F, Lundgren B, Wakefield A E
Abstract excerpt
Genotyping at the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the nuclear rRNA operon was performed on isolates of P. carinii sp. f. hominis from three clusters of P. carinii pneumonia among eight patients with haematological malignancies and six with HIV infection. Nine different ITS sequence types of P. carinii sp. f. hominis were identified in the samples from the patients with haematological malignancies,...
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