Acanthamoeba spp. in domestic tap water in houses of contact lens wearers in the metropolitan area of Mexico City

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 54-58

  Bonilla Lemus, Patricia ^a   Ramírez Bautista, Gerardo A ^a   Zamora Muñoz, Claudia ^a   Ibarra Montes, María del Rocío ^a   Ramírez Flores, Elizabeth ^a   Hernández Martínez, María Dolores ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Coliform bacteria; Contact lens wearers; Domestic tap water; Free living amoebae

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; TAP WATER;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FECAL COLIFORM; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA;

EID: 77954763160     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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