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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 1998, p. 90-93, Vol. 36, No. 1
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Pre-AIDS Era Isolates of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis: High Genotypic Similarity with Contemporary Isolates

Anthony G. Tsolaki,1 Pieter Beckers,2 and Ann E. Wakefield1,*

Molecular Infectious Diseases Group, Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DS, United Kingdom,1 and Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands2

Received 30 July 1997/Returned for modification 10 September 1997/Accepted 8 October 1997

Isolates of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis were examined from six individuals who died of P. carinii pneumonia between 1968 and 1981 and who had underlying immunodeficiencies which were not due to human immunodeficiency virus infection. DNA sequence variation was analyzed in the genes encoding the mitochondrial large subunit rRNA (mt LSU rRNA), the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of the nuclear rRNA, the arom locus, and the mitochondrial small subunit rRNA. No major variations were observed when these isolates were compared to isolates from HIV-infected individuals. A small number of minor differences were detected. A new position at which variation occurred in the mt LSU rRNA was observed in one sample. Three new ITS sequence types were identified. A total of nine different ITS sequence types were found in the six samples. Mixed infection with different ITS sequence types of P. carinii f. sp. hominis was observed in four of the six samples. The ITS locus was the most informative of the four loci for distinguishing among the isolates of P. carinii f. sp. hominis. The data suggest that isolates of P. carinii f. sp. hominis from before the AIDS pandemic are genetically very similar to those currently found in HIV-infected individuals.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Molecular Infectious Diseases Group, Department of Paediatrics, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DS, United Kingdom. Phone: 44-1865-222344. Fax: 44-1865-222626. E-mail: wakefiel{at}worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 1998, p. 90-93, Vol. 36, No. 1
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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