DNA Amplification in Experimental Pneumocystosis: Characterization of Serum Pneumocystis carinii DNA and Potential P. carinii Carrier States

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 421-426

  Bucala, Richard ^a   Sepkowitz, Kent ^a   Schluger, Neil ^a   Godwin, Thomas ^a   Armstrong, Donald ^a   Cerami, Anthony ^a  

^a PICOWER INST FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA TEMPLATE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG HOMOGENATE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAT;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; LUNG; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027275378     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/168.2.421     Document Type: Article

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