Genetic and Immunological Characterization of the Microsporidian Septata Intestinalis Cali, Kotler and Orenstein, 1993: Reclassification to Encephalitozoon Intestinalis

Parasitology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 277-285

  Didier, E S ^c   Schuitema, A R J ^a   Terpstra, W J ^a  

^a Royal Tropical Institute ^*  (United States)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

diagnosis; Encephalitozoon; Microsporidia; polymerase chain reaction; ribosomal RNA; Septata intestinalis; small subunit; Western blot immunodetection

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSPORA; MICROSPORUM; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; GENES, PROTOZOAN; HUMAN; MICROSPORIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPORES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028905832     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182000080860     Document Type: Article

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