Identification of a New Microsporidian Parasite Related to Vittaforma corneae in HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients from Portugal

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 586-590

  Sulaiman, Irshad M ^a   Matos, Olga ^b   Lobo, Maria L ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

PARASITE;

ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROSPORIDA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FECES; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PORTUGAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; CYSTOSPOROGENES; CYSTOSPOROGENES OPEROPHTERAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MICROSPORIDIA; VITTAFORMA CORNEAE;

EID: 0346336174     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00641.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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