Isolation and characterization of a potentially virulent species Entamoeba nuttalli from captive Japanese macaques

Parasitology

Volumn 136, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1169-1177

  Tachibana, H ^a   Yanagi, T ^b   Akatsuka, A ^a   Kobayashi, S ^c   Kanbara, H ^b   Tsutsumi, V ^d,e  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^e KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

18S rRNA gene; Entamoeba nuttalli; Japanese macaque; Virulency; Zymodeme

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE ISOMERASE; HEXOKINASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; ISOENZYME; RNA 18S;

AMOEBA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA NUTTALLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAMSTER; INOCULATION; ISOENZYME ANALYSIS; JAPAN; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; TROPHOZOITE; AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MONKEY DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRULENCE;

CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; MACACA; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; ISOENZYMES; JAPAN; LIVER; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MACACA; MONKEY DISEASES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 70350023725     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182009990576     Document Type: Article

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