Article
Typing with ITS regions of P.carinii from AIDS patients with recurrent pneumonia.
The Journal of eukaryotic microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Margutti P, Visconti E, Mencarini P, Zolfo M, Marinaci S, Tamburrini E, Siracusano A, Ortona E
Abstract excerpt
To understand the way of reinfection of Pneumocystis carinii we have analyzed the genetic variation at the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) in DNA samples from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of Italian HIV patients who had multiple episodes of P.carinii pneumonia. The presence of the same and/or a...
Topics
- AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
- Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
- DNA, Fungal
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Mycological Typing Techniques
- Pneumocystis
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
- Recurrence
- Sequence Analysis, DNA