PCR-based diagnosis of Naegleria sp. infection in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded brain sections

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 564-567

  Schild, Marc ^a   Gianinazzi, Christian ^a   Gottstein, Bruno ^a   Müller, Norbert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Parasitology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MOUSE; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE SECTION;

AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION;

MUS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NAEGLERIA SP.;

EID: 33847018773     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01357-06     Document Type: Article

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