Advantages of using mitochondrial 16s rDNA sequences to classify clinical isolates of Acanthamoeba

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1142-1149

  Ledee, Dolena R ^a   Booton, Gregory C ^a   Awwad, Mohammed H ^a   Sharma, Savitri ^b   Aggarwal, Ramesh K ^c   Niszl, Ingrid A ^d   Markus, Miles B ^a   Fuerst, Paul A ^a   Byers, Thomas J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ANIMALS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0037334788     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0485     Document Type: Article

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