Diversity at the locus associated with transcription of a variable surface antigen of pneumocystis carinii as an index of population structure and dynamics in infected rats

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-60

  Keely, Scott P ^a   Cushion, Melanie T ^a   Stringer, James R ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MSG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; MALE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037218266     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.71.1.47-60.2003     Document Type: Article

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