Pneumocystis carinii: Has the name really been changed?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1752-1755

  Gigliotti, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; NOMENCLATURE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

CONSENSUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 28744445052     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498150     Document Type: Review

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