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Phylogeny of Pneumocystis carinii from 18 primate species confirms host specificity and suggests coevolution.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2001
Demanche C, Berthelemy M, Petit T, Polack B, Wakefield A E, Dei-Cas E, Guillot J
Abstract excerpt
Primates are regularly infected by fungal organisms identified as Pneumocystis carinii. They constitute a valuable population for the confirmation of P. carinii host specificity. In this study, the presence of P. carinii was assessed by direct examination and nested PCR at mitochondrial large subunit (mtLSU) rRNA and dihydropteroate synthetase (DHPS) genes in 98 lung tissue samples from captive or wild nonhuman...
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