title: Comments: overview of the 5th international workshop on Pneumocystis and the 5th general meeting of the European Concerted Action on Pneumocystis Research.
abstract: The major highlights of the meetings were the initiation of efforts to assign different species names to certain Pneumocystis organisms, and the invitation for international participation in a project to map and sequence the genome of P. carinii carinii. The oral and poster presentations demonstrated important advances have been achieved in the past year.
authors.affiliation: Dept. Biol. Sci., Univ. Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Kaneshiro
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Walzer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D011010:Pneumocystis; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000382:microbiology*