Genetically unique microsporidian Encephalitozoon cuniculi strain type III isolated from squirrel monkeys

Parasitology International

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-162

  Asakura, Tokiko ^a   Nakamura, Susumu ^b   Ohta, Mariko ^b   Une, Yumi ^b   Furuya, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Encephalitozoon cuniculi; Encephalitozoonosis; Genotype; Microsporidia; Squirrel monkey

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MICROSPORIDA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SQUIRREL MONKEY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONKEY DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SAIMIRI; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANIMALIA; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; MICROSPORIDIA; SAIMIRI; SAIMIRI SCIUREUS;

EID: 33646054224     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2006.02.002     Document Type: Article

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