Competitive coexistence of two Pneumocystis species

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 177-186

  Icenhour, Crystal R ^a   Arnold, Jonathan ^b   Medvedovic, Mario ^c   Cushion, Melanie T ^c,d  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Genetics Department ^*  (United States)

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

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Competition; Competitive coexistence; Lotka Volterra; Opportunistic infections; Pneumocystis carinii; Pneumocystis pneumonia; Pneumocystis wakefieldiae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMIDITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG BURDEN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS WAKEFIELDIAE; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KARYOTYPING; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS WAKEFIELDIAE;

EID: 33645556733     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2005.03.004     Document Type: Article

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