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Limited asymptomatic carriage of Pneumocystis jiroveci in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Mar 2003
Wakefield Ann E, Lindley Austin R, Ambrose Helen E, Denis Cecile-Marie, Miller Robert F
Abstract excerpt
Forty-seven bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples from 16 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients were used to test the latency model of Pneumocystis infection in the human host. Identification of DNA sequence polymorphisms at 4 independent loci were used to genotype Pneumocystis jiroveci from the 35 samples that contained detectable P. jiroveci DNA. Eighteen of those 35 samples came from patients who...
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