Usefulness of PCR for diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in different patient groups

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1445-1449

  Weig, Michael ^a,b   Klinker, Hartwig ^a   Bögner, Barbara H ^a   Meier, Angelika ^a   Gross, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Inst of Hygiene and Microbiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 0030926780     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.35.6.1445-1449.1997     Document Type: Article

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