Genomic survey of the non-cultivatable opportunistic human pathogen, Enterocytozoon bieneusi

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Akiyoshi, Donna E ^a   Morrison, Hilary G ^b   Lei, Shi ^a   Feng, Xiaochuan ^a   Zhang, Quanshun ^a   Corradi, Nicolas ^d   Mayanja, Harriet ^c   Tumwine, James K ^c   Keeling, Patrick J ^d   Weiss, Louis M ^e   Tzipori, Saul ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; OPEN READING FRAME; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; MICROSPORIDIA;

DNA, INTERGENIC; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 59249083056     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000261     Document Type: Article

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