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Pneumocystis jiroveci genotypes in the Spanish population.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 2004
Montes-Cano M A, de la Horra C, Martin-Juan J, Varela J M, Torronteras R, Respaldiza N, Medrano F J, Calderón E J
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This study describes the genotype distribution of Pneumocystis jiroveci in 79 respiratory samples obtained from 15 patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) with P. jiroveci pneumonia and 64 human immunodeficiency virus-negative subjects with different chronic pulmonary diseases. The genotyping was based in analysis of 2 independent genetic loci: the mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA (mt LSU...
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