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A search for Pneumocystis carinii in post-mortem lungs by DNA amplification.

S E SE Peters, A E AE Wakefield, K K Sinclair, P R PR Millard, and J M JM Hopkin

J Pathol 166(2):195-8 (1992) PMID 1373186

DNA amplification of specific sequences and subsequent oligonucleotide hybridization were used to search for Pneumocystis carinii in post-mortem lung samplings from non-immunosuppressed individuals ranging from 15 to 70 years of age. No P. carinii-specific DNA was detected in 45 DNA amplification reactions from 15 lungs.

DOI: 10.1002/path.1711660217
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