Detection of Pneumocystis carinii DNA in blood by PCR is not of value for diagnosis of P. carinii pneumonia-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Detection of Pneumocystis carinii DNA in blood by PCR is not of value for diagnosis of P. carinii pneumonia

Published:1996-06 Issue:6 Volume:34 Page:1586-1588
ISSN:0095-1137
Container-title:Journal of Clinical Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Clin Microbiol

Author:

Tamburrini E¹,Mencarini P¹,Visconti E¹,Zolfo M¹,De Luca A¹,Siracusano A¹,Ortona E¹,Wakefield A E¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Università Cattolica del S. Cuore, Rome, Italy.

Abstract

A nested PCR which amplified a portion of the mitochondrial large-subunit rRNA gene of Pneumocystis carinii was used to detect P. carinii DNA in blood from patients with P. carinii pneumonia. P. carinii DNA was not detected in serum and was detected at low levels of blood cells.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Microbiology (medical)

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/jcm.34.6.1586-1588.1996

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