A review of the development of two types of human skeletal muscle infections from microsporidia associated with pathology in invertebrates and cold-blooded vertebrates

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 51-61

  Cali, Ann ^a   Weiss, Louis M ^b   Takvorian, Peter M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachiola algerae; Myositis in humans; Pleistophora ronneafiei; Trachipleistophora hominis; Water transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRACHIOLA ALGERAE; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIUM; MICROSPORUM; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PLEISTOPHORA; PLEISTOPHORA RONNEAFIEI; PLEISTOPHORA SP.; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA; TRACHIPLEISTOPHORA HOMINIS; VERTEBRATA; VITTAFORMA;

EID: 20444505305     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2005.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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