Rhinosporidium seeberi: A human pathogen from a novel group of aquatic protistan parasites

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 273-282

  Fredricks, David N ^a,b   Jolley, Jennifer A ^a   Lepp, Paul W ^a   Kosek, Jon C ^b   Relman, David A ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOMYCETALES; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 0034121724     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0603.000307     Document Type: Article

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