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Selective expression of Pneumocystis antigens in different patients during a suspected outbreak of Pneumocystis pneumonia.
mBio - 14 May 2025
Meier Caroline S, Pagni Marco, Richard Sophie, Mühlethaler Konrad, Hauser Philippe M
Abstract excerpt
The fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii causes severe pneumonia in immunocompromised individuals. It harbors a system of surface antigenic variation involving six families of major surface glycoproteins (Msg). We determined the repertoires of P. jirovecii msg genes of the most abundant family-I present in 15 Swiss patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) enrolled randomly. The highly repetitive msg-I genes were...
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