Pneumocystis jirovecii multilocus genotyping profiles in Northern Ireland

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART8, 2013, Pages 1170-1174

  Curran, Tanya ^a   McCaughey, Conall ^a   Coyle, Peter V ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MORBIDITY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NORTHERN IRELAND; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880278499     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.057794-0     Document Type: Article

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