Article
Sequences of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis strains associated with recurrent pneumonia vary at multiple loci.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 1997
Keely S P, Stringer J R
Abstract excerpt
The sequences of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis strains from 7 of 15 AIDS patients were found to vary during discrete episodes of P. carinii pneumonia. Changes in the ITS sequence correlated with changes in the mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA sequenc...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Pneumocystis
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA
