Genotypes at the internal transcribed spacers of the nuclear rRNA operon of Pneumocystis jiroveci in nonimmunosuppressed infants without severe pneumonia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1173-1180

  Totet, Anne ^a   Pautard, Jean Claude ^a   Raccurt, Christian ^a   Roux, Patricia ^b   Nevez, Gilles ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTIOUS PNEUMONIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ASCOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PNEUMONIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; FUNGI; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0345269277     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.3.1173-1180.2003     Document Type: Article

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