Entamoeba dispar, an organism reborn

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 361-364

  Clark, C Graham ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amoebiasis; Differentiation; Entamoeba dispar; Entamoeba histolytica

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 0032128624     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(98)91049-5     Document Type: Article

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