Human intestinal spirochetosis in Japan; Its incidence, clinicopathologic features, and genotypic identification

Modern Pathology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 76-84

  Tanahashi, Jin ^a   Daa, Tsutomu ^a   Gamachi, Ayako ^b   Kashima, Kenji ^a   Kondoh, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yada, Naomi ^a   Yokoyama, Shigeo ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Pathology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachyspira aalborgi; Brachyspira pilosicoli; Immunostaining; Intestinal spirochetosis; Japan

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA AALBORGI; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE BIOPSY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROCHETE INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRACHYSPIRA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; INTESTINE, LARGE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIROCHAETALES INFECTIONS;

EID: 38649142842     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: 15300285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/modpathol.3800987     Document Type: Article

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