Characterization of acanthamoeba isolates from dust of a public hospital in curitiba, paraná, Brazil

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-75

  Costa, Adriana O ^a   Castro, Edilene A ^a   Ferreira, Gabriela A ^b   Furst, Cinthia ^c   Crozeta, Marcos A ^a   Thomaz Soccol, Vanete ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hospital dust; Osmo tolerance; Pathogenicity; PCR; Thermo tolerance

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

DISEASE TREATMENT; DISINFECTION; DUST; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTIST; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; DUST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; TEMPERATURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DUST; GENETIC VARIATION; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MANNITOL; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

BRAZIL; CURITIBA; PARANA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 73349119932     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: 15507408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1550-7408.2009.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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