Increasing importance of Balamuthia mandrillaris

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 435-448

  Matin, Abdul ^a   Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah ^a   Jayasekera, Samantha ^a   Khan, Naveed Ahmed ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CLARITHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; MILTEFOSINE; PENTAMIDINE; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; PROTEINASE; SULFADIAZINE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS; BIOLOGY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE CYCLE; MAMMAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROKARYOTE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LOBOSEA; SARCOMASTIGOPHORA INFECTIONS;

BALAMUTHIA; BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 47949129927     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00056-07     Document Type: Review

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