Encephalitozoon cuniculi strain III is a cause of encephalitozoonosis in both humans and dogs

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2086-2088

  Snowden, Karen ^a   Logan, K ^a   Didier, E S ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; ENCEPHALITOZOON; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION;

ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0032728403     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/315154     Document Type: Article

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