Microsporidia: Emerging pathogenic protists

Acta Tropica

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-102

  Weiss, Louis M ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon; Enterocytozoon; Microsporidia; Phylogeny; Polar tubes; Review

Indexed keywords

POLAR TUBE PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CONFERENCE PAPER; ELASTICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIFE CYCLE; MICROSPORA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; SOLUBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WATER SUPPLY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BRACHIOLA; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; GLUGEA AMERICANUS; MICROSPORIDIA; NOSEMA; PLEISTOPHORA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA; VITTAFORMA;

EID: 0035936879     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(00)00178-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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