Genotyping of Pneumocystis jirovecii isolates from human immunodeficiency virus-negative patients in China

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 209-215

  Sun, Lan ^a,b,c   Huang, Minjun ^a,b,c   Wang, Jiancheng ^a   Xue, Feng ^a,b,c   Hong, Cailing ^a   Guo, Zengzhu ^a,b,c   Gu, Junchao ^a,b,c  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Tropical Medicine Research Institute   (China)

^c Beijing Key Laboratory for Research on Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

China; Genotypes; HIV negative patients; Internal transcribed spacer; Pneumocystis jirovecii; Upstream conserved sequence

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; LARGE SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; FUNGAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MSG GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPSTREAM CONSERVED SEQUENCE; VERY ELDERLY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

FUNGI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923003108     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2015.01.021     Document Type: Article

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