Identification of novel genes of non-pathogenic Entamoeba dispar by expressed sequence tag analysis

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-285

  Sharma, Rachna ^a   Azam, Amir ^a   Bhattacharya, Sudha ^a   Bhattacharya, Alok ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Entamoeba dispar; Entamoeba histolytica; EST

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; GENE LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ENTAMOEBA DISPAR;

EID: 0032961844     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00018-3     Document Type: Article

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