Variation in the Major Surface Glycoprotein Genes inPneumocystis jirovecii
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- 1 September 2008
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 198 (5) , 741-749
- https://doi.org/10.1086/590433
Abstract
The genome of Pneumocystis, which causes life-threatening pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients, contains a multicopy gene family that encodes the maKeywords
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