Identification and delineation of members of the Entamoeba complex by pyrosequencing

Molecular and Cellular Probes

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 403-406

  Stensvold, Christen R ^a   Lebbad, Marianne ^b   Verweij, Jaco J ^c   Jespersgaard, Cathrine ^a   Samson Himmelstjerna, Georg von ^d   Nielsen, Susanne S ^a   Nielsen, Henrik V ^a  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Entamoeba; Parasite; PCR; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CYST (RESTING STAGE); ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; FECES MICROFLORA; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; ENTAMOEBA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIBOSOME SUBUNITS, SMALL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII;

EID: 78049318393     PISSN: 08908508     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcp.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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