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Clinical significance and phylogenetic relationship of novel Australian Pneumocystis jirovecii genotypes.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2009
van Hal Sebastiaan J, Gilgado Felix, Doyle Tom, Barratt Joel, Stark Damien, Meyer Wieland, Harkness Jock
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis jirovecii is an important opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients. Molecular typing is employed to study this pathogen, as no culture system exists. No Australian P. jirovecii strains have been previously studied. Direct sequencing, targeting the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the nuclear rRNA operon, the mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA (mt LSU rRNA), and the...
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