Genetic characterization of UCS region of Pneumocystis jirovecii and construction of allelic profiles of Indian isolates based on sequence typing at three regions

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 180-186

  Gupta, Rashmi ^a,b   Mirdha, Bijay Ranjan ^a   Guleria, Randeep ^a   Kumar, Lalit ^a   Luthra, Kalpana ^a   Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar ^a   Sreenivas, Vishnubhatla ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allelic profiles; Multilocus typing; Pneumocystis jirovecii; UCS

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDIAN; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RNA;

PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

EID: 84870541460     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.07.013     Document Type: Article

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