Quantitation of microsporidia in cultured cells by flow cytometry

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-114

  Franzen, Caspar ^a   Müller, Andreas ^b   Hartmann, Pia ^a   Salzberger, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; FCM; Flow cytometry; Microsporidia

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VERO CELL;

EID: 3042826241     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.20028     Document Type: Article

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