Acanthamoeba T3, T4 and T5 in swimming-pool waters from Southern Brazil

Acta Tropica

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 233-235

  Caumo, Karin ^a   Rott, Marilise B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Brazil; Environmental isolates; Genotypes; Swimming pool water

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

BATHING WATER; GENE; GENOTYPE; POOL; PROTOZOAN;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH HAZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING POOL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BRAZIL; ENCEPHALITIS; GENOTYPE; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; HUMANS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SWIMMING POOLS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BRAZIL;

ACANTHAMOEBA;

EID: 79851508024     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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