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Pneumocystis jirovecii multilocus genotyping profiles in patients from Portugal and Spain.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Apr 2008
Esteves F, Montes-Cano M A, de la Horra C, Costa M C, Calderón E J, Antunes F, Matos O
Abstract excerpt
Pneumonia caused by the opportunistic organism Pneumocystis jirovecii is a clinically important infection affecting AIDS and other immunocompromised patients. The present study aimed to compare and characterise the frequency pattern of DNA sequences from the P. jirovecii mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA (mtLSU rRNA) gene, the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions...
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