Typing of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates from Iranian immunosuppressed patients based on the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region of the rRNA gene

Medical Mycology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 843-850

  Sheikholeslami, Maryam Fatemeh ^a,b   Sadraei, Javid ^b   Farnia, Parissa ^a   Forozandeh Moghadam, Mehdi ^b   Emadi Kochak, Hamid ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Genotyping; Immunosuppressed patients; Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1); Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2); Pneumocystis jirovecii; Ribosomal DNA

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

ADULT; AGED; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; NEOPLASMS; PNEUMOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84885944380     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2013.811553     Document Type: Article

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