Growth and airborne transmission of cell-sorted life cycle stages of Pneumocystis carinii.

Pneumocystis organisms are airborne opportunistic pathogens that cannot be continuously grown in culture. Consequently, the follow-up of Pneumocystis stage-to-stage differentiation, the sequence of their multiplication processes as well as formal identification of the transmitted form have remained...

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Main Authors: Anna Martinez, Marie C M Halliez, El Moukhtar Aliouat, Magali Chabé, Annie Standaert-Vitse, Emilie Fréalle, Nausicaa Gantois, Muriel Pottier, Anthony Pinon, Eduardo Dei-Cas, Cécile-Marie Aliouat-Denis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3819301?pdf=render