Presence of virulent strains of amphizoic amoebae in swimming pools of the city of Szczecin

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-236

  Górnik, Katarzyna ^a   Kuźna Grygiel, Wanda ^a  

^a POMERANIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amoeba; Swimming pools; Virulent Acanthamoeba strains

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; BRAIN; INOCULATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLAND; SPLEEN; SWIMMING POOL;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MICE; POLAND; SWIMMING POOLS; VIRULENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 11244294794     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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