Phylogenetic diversity among geographically dispersed Chlamydiales endosymbionts recovered from clinical and environmental isolates of Acanthamoeba spp.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2613-2619

  Fritsche, Thomas R ^a   Horn, Matthias ^b   Wagner, Michael ^b   Herwig, Russell P ^a   Schleifer, Karl Heinz ^b   Gautom, Romesh K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Washington State Public Health Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIALES; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GENES, RRNA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CHLAMYDIALES; CHLAMYDOPHILA; NEGIBACTERIA; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE; RICKETTSIALES; SIMKANIA; WADDLIA;

EID: 0034084128     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.6.2613-2619.2000     Document Type: Article

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