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Isoenzyme diversity in Pneumocystis carinii from rats, mice, and rabbits.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Mar 1997
Mazars E, Guyot K, Durand I, Dei-Cas E, Boucher S, Abderrazak S B, Banuls A L, Tibayrenc M, Camus D
Abstract excerpt
Pneumocystis carinii is an opportunistic pathogen that causes pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. To investigate the genetic diversity of P. carinii populations, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis was used to analyze five enzyme systems (malate dehydrogenase, glucose phosphate isomerase, leucine aminopeptidase, malic enzyme, and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase). Only five different multilocus associations...
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