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Prevalence of colonisation and genotypic characterisation of Pneumocystis jirovecii among cystic fibrosis patients in Spain.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2005
Respaldiza N, Montes-Cano M A, Dapena F J, de la Horra C, Mateos I, Medrano F J, Calderon E, Varela J M
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis jirovecii colonisation may occur among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients because of their underlying pulmonary disease. A wide epidemiological analysis was performed among CF patients from Spain to assess the prevalence of P. jirovecii colonisation and the distribution of different genotypes. P. jirovecii was identified by nested PCR targeting the mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA gene from sputum samples...
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