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Volume 10, Number 10—October 2004
Perspective

Strain Typing Methods and Molecular Epidemiology of Pneumocystis Pneumonia

Charles Ben Beard*Comments to Author , 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 2

Representative denaturing gel electrophoresis analysis of Pneumocystis jirovecii tandem repeats in clinical isolates. Numbers above each lane represent individual isolates. Lane M is a mixture of polymerase chain reaction products from five isolates, of which the number of repeats was 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (shown above DNA bands), as determined by sequencing. Reprinted from (33) with permission from the University of Chicago Press.

Figure 2. Representative denaturing gel electrophoresis analysis of Pneumocystis jirovecii tandem repeats in clinical isolates. Numbers above each lane represent individual isolates. Lane M is a mixture of polymerase chain reaction products from five isolates, of which the number of repeats was 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (shown above DNA bands), as determined by sequencing. Reprinted from (33) with permission from the University of Chicago Press.

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