Genetic diversity at the internal transcribed spacer regions of the rRNA operon among isolates of Pneumocystis carinii from AIDS patients with recurrent pneumonia

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-156

  Tsolaki, Anthony G ^b   Miller, Robert F ^b   Underwood, Anthony P ^b   Banerji, Suneale ^a   Wakefield, Ann E ^a  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REINFECTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0030017184     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/174.1.141     Document Type: Article

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