Trichomonas vaginalis: Observation of coexistence of multiple viruses in the same isolate

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 197-201

  Benchimol, Marlene ^a   Chang, T H ^b   Alderete, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE SANTA ÚRSULA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Negative staining; Trichomonas vaginalis; Virus

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA VIRUS; STAINING; SYMBIOSIS; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS PARTICLE;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEGATIVE STAINING; RNA VIRUSES; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS; VIRION;

DSRNA VIRUSES; MICA; PROTOZOA; RNA VIRUSES; TRICHOMONAS VAGINALIS;

EID: 0037044476     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00932-1     Document Type: Article

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