Human amebiasis: Breaking the paradigm?

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1105-1120

  Ximénez, Cecilia ^a   Cerritos, Rene ^a,b   Rojas, Liliana ^a   Dolabella, Silvio ^c   Morán, Patricia ^a   Shibayama, Mineko ^d   González, Enrique ^a   Valadez, Alicia ^a   Hernández, Eric ^a   Valenzuela, Olivia ^e   Limón, Angélica ^a   Partida, Oswaldo ^a   Silva, Edwards F ^f  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SERGIPE   (Brazil)

^d DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE SONORA   (Mexico)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

E. dispar; E. histolytica; Genetic diversity; Human amebiasis; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; CLASSIFICATION; ENTAMOEBA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; PROTOZOA;

PROTOZOAL DNA;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77950868497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph7031105     Document Type: Article

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