Restriction fragment length polymorphism typing demonstrates substantial diversity among pneumocystis jirovecii isolates

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 200, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1616-1622

  Ripamonti, Chiara ^a   Orenstein, Abigail ^a,f   Kutty, Geetha ^a   Huang, Laurence ^c   Schuhegger, Regina ^d   Sing, Andreas ^d   Fantoni, Giovanna ^a   Atzori, Chiara ^e   Vinton, Carol ^a   Huber, Charles ^b   Conville, Patricia S ^b   Kovacs, Joseph A ^a  

^a Critical Care Medicine Department   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority (Bavarian LGL)   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MSG FUNGAL GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; GPA PROTEIN, PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII SP.; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 70449721413     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/644643     Document Type: Article

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