Cultivation of pathogenic and opportunistic free-living amebas

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 342-354

  Schuster, Frederick L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA; BALAMUTHIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KERATITIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NAEGLERIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; REVIEW; SAPPINIA DIPLOIDEA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MICE; NAEGLERIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PARASITOLOGY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BALAMUTHIA; NAEGLERIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0036315180     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.15.3.342-354.2002     Document Type: Review

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