Comparison of Entamoeba histolytica DNA isolated from a cynomolgus monkey with human isolates

Parasitology Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 539-546

  Takano, Jun Ichiro ^a   Narita, Toyoko ^a   Tachibana, Hiroshi ^b   Terao, Keiji ^c   Fujimoto, Koji ^a  

^a The Corporation for Production and Research of Laboratory Primates   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; SERINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHITINASE; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; MACACA FASCICULARIS;

EID: 34547102975     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0510-2     Document Type: Article

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