Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of Balantidium coli isolated in the Philippines

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 387-394

  Nilles Bije, Ma Lourdes ^a,b   Rivera, Windell L ^a,c  

^a University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^b SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

^c University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BALANTIDIUM; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CELL VACUOLE; CILIARY MOTILITY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTIC FLAGELLUM; GENE SEQUENCE; LARGE INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SWINE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BALANTIDIASIS; CELL ORGANELLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SWINE DISEASE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BALANTIDIUM; BALANTIDIUM COLI; CILIOPHORA; EQUIDAE; PRIMATES; PROTOZOA; RODENTIA; STRUTHIONIFORMES; SUIDAE;

PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMALS; BALANTIDIASIS; BALANTIDIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANELLES; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 77949323184     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1673-9     Document Type: Article

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