Genetic variation among pneumocystis carinii hominis isolates in recurrent pneumocystosis

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 595-598

  Keely, Scott P ^a   Stringer, James R ^a   Baughman, Robert P ^a   Linke, Michael J ^a   Walzer, Peter D ^a   Smulian, A George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; RECURRENCE; RNA; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0029112405     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/172.2.595     Document Type: Article

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