Strain Typing Methods and Molecular Epidemiology of Pneumocystis Pneumonia
Charles Ben Beard*
, Patricia Roux†, Gilles Nevez‡, Philippe M. Hauser§, Joseph A. Kovacs¶, Thomas R. Unnasch#, and Bettina Lundgren**
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; †Saint-Antoine University Hospital, Paris, Franc; ‡University of Picardy, Amiens, France; §Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Lausanne, Switzerland; ¶National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; #University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA; **Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Schematic representation of the single-strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) patterns of four variable regions used to type Pneumocystis jirovecii. Each lane corresponds to a hypothetical sample. All simple patterns with two bands for each region are shown. Each uppercase letter represents a simple SSCP pattern. For each region, the complex SSCP pattern A,B corresponding to the superimposition of simple patterns A and B is represented. The complex ITS1 pattern A,B, is demonstrated, in which pattern A is more abundant than pattern B.
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