Free-living amoebae as agents of human infection

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 199, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1104-1106

  Francine, Marciano Cabral ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; PENTAMIDINE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMEBIC INFECTION; AMOEBA; BALAMUTHIA INFECTION; BALAMUTHIA MANDRILLARIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; EDITORIAL; GRANULOMATOUS AMEBIC ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; KERATITIS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; PRIMARY AMEBIC MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAPPINIA;

AMEBIASIS; AMOEBIDA; ANIMALS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 65649123389     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597474     Document Type: Editorial

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