Assembly and annotation of Pneumocystis jirovecii from the human lung microbiome

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Cushion, Melanie T ^a   Keely, Scott P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ATOVAQUONE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; PRIMAQUINE; VACCINE; FUNGAL DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTIG MAPPING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG TARGETING; EPIDEMIC; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIFE CYCLE; LUNG; LUNG MICROBIOME; MICROBIOME; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHEMISTRY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; LUNG LAVAGE; MICROBIOLOGY;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

EID: 84880072834     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00224-13     Document Type: Note

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