Comparative Genomics Suggests that the Fungal Pathogen Pneumocystis Is an Obligate Parasite Scavenging Amino Acids from Its Host's Lungs

Pneumocystis jirovecii is a fungus causing severe pneumonia in immuno-compromised patients. Progress in understanding its pathogenicity and epidemiology has been hampered by the lack of a long-term in vitro culture method. Obligate parasitism of this pathogen has been suggested on the basis of vario...

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Autores principales: Hauser, Philippe M., Burdet, Frédéric X., Cissé, Ousmane H., Keller, Laurent, Taffé, Patrick, Sanglard, Dominique, Pagni, Marco
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21188143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015152

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3004796/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21188143
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015152

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