Genotypic variation of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates in India based on sequence diversity at mitochondrial large subunit rRNA

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 301, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 267-272

  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   Iyer, Venkateswaran K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

India; Mt LSU rRNA genotypes; Pneumocystis jirovecii

Indexed keywords

LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INDIA; KIDNEY GRAFT; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INDIA; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

EID: 79951948592     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

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