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Genetic diversity of Pneumocystis jirovecii in colonized Cuban infants and toddlers.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2014
Monroy-Vaca Ernesto X, de Armas Yaxsier, Illnait-Zaragozí María T, Diaz Raúl, Toraño Gilda, Vega Dania, Alvarez-Lam Ileana, Calderón Enrique J, Stensvold Christen R
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis jirovecii is a leading cause of opportunistic infections among immunocompromised patients. The aim of this study was to determine the genetic diversity of P. jirovecii from colonized Cuban infants and toddlers by analysis of four genetic loci: mitochondrial large subunit (mtLSU) rRNA, cytochrome b (CYB), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and β-tubulin (β-tub). We determined the multilocus profiles based on...
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