An Entamoeba sp. strain isolated from rhesus monkey is virulent but genetically different from Entamoeba histolytica

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-114

  Tachibana, Hiroshi ^a   Yanagi, Tetsuo ^b   Pandey, Kishor ^b   Cheng, Xun Jia ^a   Kobayashi, Seiki ^c   Sherchand, Jeevan B ^d   Kanbara, Hiroji ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Entamoeba histolytica; Entamoeba nuttalli; Rhesus monkey; rRNA gene; Virulency

Indexed keywords

DNA 18S; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ISOENZYME; PEROXIREDOXIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RHESUS MONKEY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HUMANS; LIVER; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; VIRULENCE;

CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 34247497373     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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