Characterization of variants of the gene encoding the p55 antigen in Pneumocystis from rats and mice

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 955-960

  Ma, Liang ^a,b   Kutty, Geetha ^a   Jia, Qiuyao ^a,b   Kovacs, Joseph A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE MUTANT;

FUNGUS ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, FUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, FUNGAL; MICE; MICE, SCID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; RATS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1542751258     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05131-0     Document Type: Article

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