Morphological, physiological, molecular and phylogenetic characterization of new environmental isolates of Acanthamoeba spp. from the region of Bratislava, Slovakia

Biologia

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-91

  Nagyová, Viera ^a   Nagy, Arpád ^b   Janeček, Štefan ^c   Timko, Jozef ^c  

^a State Public Health Institute of the Slovak Republic   (Slovakia)

^b ADINIS   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

18S rDNA; Acanthamoeba; Cyst morphology; Environmental isolates; Group I intron; Pathogenicity; Subgenus classification

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA GRIFFINI; ACANTHAMOEBA LENTICULATA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 73949130367     PISSN: 00063088     EISSN: 13369563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11756-009-0217-1     Document Type: Article

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