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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2001, p. 3789-3792, Vol. 39, No. 10
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.10.3789-3792.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Heterogeneity and Compartmentalization of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis Genotypes in Autopsy Lungs

Jannik Helweg-Larsen,1,* Bettina Lundgren,2 and Jens D. Lundgren1

Department of Infectious Diseases1 and Department of Clinical Microbiology,2 Hvidovre University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Received 2 March 2001/Returned for modification 10 July 2001/Accepted 2 August 2001

The extent and importance of genotype heterogeneity of Pneumocystis carinii f. sp. hominis within lungs have not previously been investigated. Two hundred forty PCR clones obtained from respiratory specimens and lung segments from three patients with fatal P. carinii pneumonia were investigated to detect genetic diversity in the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the nuclear rRNA operon, the mitochondrial large-subunit (mtLSU) rRNA gene, and the dihydropteroate synthase-encoding gene. For two of the three examined patients, a mixture of different mtLSU rRNA and ITS genotypes was observed. Not all genotypes present in the lungs at autopsy were detected in the diagnostic respiratory samples. Compartmentalization of specific ITS and mtLSU rRNA sequence types was observed in different lung segments. In conclusion, the interpretation of genotype data and in particular ITS sequence types in the assessment of epidemiological questions should be cautious since genotyping done on respiratory samples cannot a priori be assumed to represent all genotypes present within the lung.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Copenhagen HIV Programme, Department of Infectious Diseases 144, Hvidovre University Hospital, 2650 Hvidovre, Denmark. Phone: 45 36 32 35 11. Fax: 45 36 47 33 40. E-mail: jhl{at}cphiv.dk.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2001, p. 3789-3792, Vol. 39, No. 10
0095-1137/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.10.3789-3792.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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