Isolation of potentially pathogenic strains of Acanthamoeba in wild squirrels from the Canary Islands and Morocco

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-79

  Lorenzo Morales, Jacob ^a   López Darias, Marta ^b   Martínez Carretero, Enrique ^a   Valladares, Basilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Barbary ground squirrel; Canary Islands; Environmental health; Morocco; Pathogen; Public health

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CYST; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TROPHOZOITE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIASIS; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MOROCCO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ATLANTOXERUS GETULUS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 34547105105     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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