Genotyping and phylogenetic analysis of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates from India

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 712-719

  Gupta, Rashmi ^a   Mirdha, Bijay Ranjan ^a   Guleria, Randeep ^a   Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar ^a   Samantaray, Jyotish Chandra ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^b   Kabra, Sushil Kumar ^a   Luthra, Kalpana ^a   Sreenivas, Vishnubhatla ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Haplotypes; India; ITS; Pneumocystis jirovecii

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME RNA; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONING; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INDIA; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

EID: 77954029682     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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