Predominance of subtype 3 among Blastocystis isolates from a major hospital in Singapore

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 663-670

  Wong, Kenneth H S ^a,b   Ng, G C ^a,b   Lin, Raymond T P ^c   Yoshikawa, H ^d   Taylor, Mark B ^b   Tan, Kevin S W ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^d NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED RIBOSOMAL DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGAPORE; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RIBOTYPING; SINGAPORE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; BLASTOCYSTIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 39749181524     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0808-0     Document Type: Article

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