Profiles of a pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica-like variant with variations in the nucleotide sequence of the small subunit ribosomal RNA isolated from a primate (De Brazza's guenon)

Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 471-474

  Suzuki, Jun ^a   Kobayashi, Seiki ^b   Murata, Rie ^a   Yanagawa, Yoshitoki ^a   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

De Brazza's guenon; Entamoeba histolytica like variant; Pathogenic isolate; Primate; SSU rRNA gene

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECUS; CLASSIFICATION; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONKEY DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONKEY DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARANEAE; ATELES SP.; COLOBINAE; COLOBUS; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34748889545     PISSN: 10427260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1638/2006-0068.1     Document Type: Article

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