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Population structure of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolated from immunodeficiency virus-positive patients.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2010
Esteves Francisco, Gaspar Jorge, Tavares Adélcia, Moser Inês, Antunes Francisco, Mansinho Kamal, Matos Olga
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PcP) is an important opportunistic infection among immunocompromised patients. Genetic characterization of P. jirovecii isolated from HIV-positive patients, based on identification of multiple nucleotide sequences at eight distinct loci, was achieved by using PCR with DNA sequencing and RFLP. The present study showed that the mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA (mtLSU rRNA), the...
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