Intragenomic variation in the internal transcribed spacer 1 region of Dientamoeba fragilis as a molecular epidemiological marker

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3270-3275

  Bart, Aldert ^a   Van Der Heijden, Harold M ^b   Greve, Sophie ^a   Speijer, Dave ^a   Landman, Wil J ^b   Van Gool, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIRD; DIENTAMOEBA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIENTAMOEBA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRICHOMONADIDA;

AVES; DIENTAMOEBA FRAGILIS; HISTOMONAS MELEAGRIDIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 53649087971     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00680-08     Document Type: Article

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