Genetic diversity of Pneumocystis jirovecii in colonized Cuban infants and toddlers

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages 60-66

  Monroy Vaca, Ernesto X ^a   de Armas, Yaxsier ^a   Illnait Zaragozí, María T ^a   Diaz, Raúl ^a   Toraño, Gilda ^a   Vega, Dania ^b   Álvarez Lam, Ileana ^c   Calderón, Enrique J ^d   Stensvold, Christen R ^e  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b Juan Manuel Marquez Pediatric Hospital   (Cuba)

^c HOSPITAL PEDIÁTRICO DOCENTE WILLIAM SOLER   (Cuba)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^e STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Colonization; Cuba; Genotypes; Infants; Pneumocystis; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CYTOCHROME B; RIBOSOME RNA; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BETA TUBULIN GENE; CUBA; CYTOCHROME B GENE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE GENE; TODDLER; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL LOAD; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PERTUSSIS; PHYLOGENY; THROAT CULTURE;

COLONIZATION; CUBA; GENOTYPES; INFANTS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; TODDLERS;

CUBA; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS;

EID: 84893040647     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2013.12.024     Document Type: Article

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