Discrimination of Entamoeba moshkovskii in patients with gastrointestinal disorders by single-round PCR

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-138

  Mojarad, Ehsan Nazemalhosseini ^a   Nochi, Zahra ^a   Sahebekhtiari, Navid ^a   Nejad, Mohammad Rostami ^a   Dabiri, Hossein ^a   Zali, Mohammad Reza ^a   Kazemi, Bahram ^a   Haghighi, Ali ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES CULTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; IRAN; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950685553     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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