Article
Biodiversity of Pneumocystis carinii hominis: typing with different DNA regions.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Feb 1997
Latouche S, Ortona E, Mazars E, Margutti P, Tamburrini E, Siracusano A, Guyot K, Nigou M, Roux P
Abstract excerpt
The purpose of this study was to identify the most useful gene for the detection of biodiversity of Pneumocystis carinii hominis isolates and to compare samples from French and Italian subjects. We studied 20 bronchoalveolar lavage fluid specimens from 20 human immunodeficiency virus-infected pat...
Topics
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Fungal
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Genes, Fungal
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Italy
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Paris
- Pneumocystis
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA
- RNA, Fungal