Isolation of Balamuthia Amebas from the Environment

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 510-511

  Dunnebacke, Thelma H ^a   Schuster, Frederick L ^a   Yagi, Shigeo ^a   Booton, Gregory C ^b  

^a VIRAL AND RICKETTSIAL DISEASE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURE MEDIUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SARCODINA; SOIL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; LOBOSEA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; SOIL; WATER;

ANIMALIA; BALAMUTHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SARCODINA;

EID: 0348227647     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2003.tb00612.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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