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Pneumocystis jirovecii genetic diversity in a Spanish tertiary hospital.
Medical mycology - 8 Dec 2021
Goterris Lidia, Pasic Lana, Guerrero Murillo Mercedes, Kan Alex, Anton Andres, Aguilar Company Juan, Ruiz-Camps Isabel, Meyer Wieland, Martin-Gomez María Teresa
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis jirovecii is associated with non-noxious colonization or severe pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts. Epidemiological investigations have been hampered by the lack of a standardized typing scheme. Thus, only partial molecular data on Spanish P. jirovecii cases are available. Recently, a new ISHAM consensus multilocus sequence typing scheme (MLST) targeting β-TUB, mt26S, CYB, and SOD with a publicly...
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