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Genotypic variation of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates in India based on sequence diversity at mitochondrial large subunit rRNA.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Mar 2011
Gupta Rashmi, Mirdha Bijay Ranjan, Guleria Randeep, Agarwal Sanjay Kumar, Samantaray Jyotish Chandra, Kumar Lalit, Kabra Sushil Kumar, Luthra Kalpana, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla, Iyer Venkateswaran K
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), a common and serious opportunistic infection in immunocompromised patients, is caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly known as Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis). The aim of the present study was to describe the prevalence and distribution of genotypes of P. jirovecii based on sequence polymorphisms at mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA (mt LSU rRNA) region in both HIV...
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