ATCC® Number:PRA-159™
Organism: Pneumocystis carinii Delanoe and Delanoe
Designations: M167-6
Isolation: Isolated by M Collins from the lungs of an immunosuppressed Lewis male rat (Rattus norvegicus), Cincinnati, OH, October 2003.
Depositors: MT Cushion
Biosafety Level:1
Shipped: frozen
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Type Strain: yes
Comments: Cultured in vivo, rat lung Determined by contour-clamped homogeneous electrical field electrophoresis to be the Form 1 karyotype [16172944]
References: 16172944: Redhead SA, et al. Pneumocystis and Trypanosoma cruzi: nomenclature and typifications. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol. 53: 2-11, 2006. PubMed: 16441572
