Identification of an avirulent Entamoeba histolytica strain with unique tRNA-linked short tandem repeat markers

Parasitology International

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-81

  Escueta de Cadiz, Aleyla ^a,b   Kobayashi, Seiki ^c   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^c   Tachibana, Hiroshi ^d   Nozaki, Tomoyoshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amebiasis; Asymptomatic; Short tandem repeat; Symptomatic; tRNA; Virulence

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DYSENTERY; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA;

EID: 76349091126     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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