Pneumocystis jirovecii multilocus genotyping profiles in patients from Portugal and Spain

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 356-362

  Esteves, F ^a   Montes cano, M A ^b   De La Horra, C ^b   Costa, M C ^a   Calderon E J ^b   Antunes, F ^c   Matos, O ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dihydropteroate synthase; Genotyping; ITS types; mtLSU rRNA analysis; Multilocus genotyping; Pneumocystis jirovecii

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROPTEROATE SYNTHASE; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

EID: 40549145169     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2007.01944.x     Document Type: Article

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