Isolation and genotyping of potentially pathogenic Acanthamoeba and Naegleria species from tap-water sources in Osaka, Japan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1109-1117

  Edagawa, Akiko ^a   Kimura, Akio ^a   Kawabuchi Kurata, Takako ^a   Kusuhara, Yasuhiro ^b   Karanis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a OSAKA PREFECTURAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; TAP WATER;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; GENOTYPE; INCUBATION TIME; JAPAN; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NAEGLERIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; JAPAN; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAEGLERIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MUS; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA AUSTRALIENSIS;

EID: 69249211011     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1528-4     Document Type: Article

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