In vitro cultivation of microsporidia of clinical importance

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 401-413

  Visvesvara, Govinda S ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CELL CULTURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROSPORIDA; NONHUMAN; NOSEMA; PARASITE CULTIVATION; REVIEW; VITTAFORMA;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; VITTAFORMA;

BRACHIOLA ALGERAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOON HELLEM; ENCEPHALITOZOON INTESTINALIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HEXAPODA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; NOSEMA; PROTOZOA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS; VITTAFORMA; VITTAFORMA CORNEAE;

EID: 0036318222     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.15.3.401-413.2002     Document Type: Review

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