Impact of free-living amoebae on presence of parachlamydia acanthamoebae in the hospital environment and its survival in vitro without requirement for amoebae

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3360-3365

  Fukumoto, Tatsuya ^a   Matsuo, Junji ^b   Hayashi, Masahiro ^b   Oguri, Satoshi ^a   Nakamura, Shinji ^c   Mizutani, Yoshihiko ^d   Yao, Takashi ^d   Akizawa, Kouzi ^a   Suzuki, Haruki ^a   Shimizu, Chikara ^a   Matsuno, Kazuhiko ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBA; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDIALES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PARACHLAMYDIA ACANTHAMOEBAE;

EID: 77956839081     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00366-10     Document Type: Article

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