Diagnosis of Enterocytozoon bieneusi (Microsporidia) infections by polymerase chain reaction in stool samples using primers based on the region coding for small-subunit ribosomal RNA

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 874-879

  Da Silva, Alexandre J ^a,d   Bornay Llinares, Fernando J ^b   De La Puente, Carmen Del Aguila ^a,c   Moura, Hércules ^a   Peralta, José Mauro ^a,d   Sobottka, Ingo ^a,e   Schwartz, David A ^a,f   Visvesvara, Govinda S ^a   Slemenda, Susan B ^a   Pieniazek, Norman J ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^c Urbanización Monteprincipe   (Spain)

^d Cidade Universitária   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030847139     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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