Article
Preliminary results of Pneumocystis carinii strain differentiation by using molecular biology.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 1994
Latouche S, Roux P, Poirot J L, Lavrard I, Hermelin B, Bertrand V
Abstract excerpt
The mode of Pneumocystis carinii transmission is controversial. Recent studies point to exogenous inoculation rather than reactivation, and person-to-person transmission has also been suggested. Comparison of nucleotide sequences of the large-subunit mitochondrial rRNA gene of P. carinii from human immunodeficiency virus-seropositive patients showed strain differences.
Topics
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Fungal
- Genetic Variation
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pneumocystis
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Fungal