PCR amplification and species determination of microsporidia in formalin-fixed feces after immunomagnetic separation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 333-336

  Dowd, Scot E ^a   Gerba, Charles P ^a   Javier Enriquez, F ^a   Pepper, Ian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PROTOZOAL DNA; RESIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MICROSPORA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; MICROSPORIDIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031965095     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.1.333-336.1998     Document Type: Article

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