%0 Journal Article
%A Vargas, S L
%A Ponce, C
%A Bustamante, R
%A Calderón, E
%A Nevez, G
%A De Armas, Y
%A Matos, O
%A Miller, R F
%A Gallo, M J
%T Importance of tissue sampling, laboratory methods, and patient characteristics for detection of Pneumocystis in autopsied lungs of non-immunosuppressed individuals.
%D 2017
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/11275
%X To understand the epidemiological significance of Pneumocystis detection in a lung tissue sample of non-immunosuppressed individuals, we examined sampling procedures, laboratory methodology, and patient characteristics of autopsy series reported in the literature. Number of tissue specimens, DNA-extraction procedures, age and underlying diagnosis highly influence yield and are critical to understand yield differences of Pneumocystis among reports of pulmonary colonization in immunocompetent individuals.
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