Unapparent microsporidial infection among immunocompetent humans in the Czech Republic

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1064-1070

  Sak, Bohumil ^a   Brady, Daniel ^b   Pelikánová, Markéta ^a   Květoňová, Dana ^a   Rost, Michael ^c   Kostka, Martin ^a   Tolarová, Věra ^d   Hůzová, Zuzana ^d   Kváč, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^d Zdravotniho ustavu se sidlem v Ostrave   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; ENTEROCYTOZOON; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIOSIS; MIXED INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ADULT; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTIONS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, FUNGAL; ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOONOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ENCEPHALITOZOON; ENCEPHALITOZOON SP.; ENTEROCYTOZOON BIENEUSI; MICROSPORIDIA;

EID: 79952324205     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01147-10     Document Type: Article

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