Development of a PCR assay for diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia based on amplification of the multicopy major surface glycoprotein gene family

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-32

  Huang, Sheng N ^a   Fischer, Steven H ^b   O'Shaughnessy, Elizabeth ^b   Gill, Vee J ^b   Masur, Henry ^a   Kovacs, Joseph A ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MSC 1662 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033199387     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(99)00050-4     Document Type: Article

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