More Acanthamoeba genotypes: Limits to the use of rDNA fragments to describe new genotypes

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-54

  Corsaro, Daniele ^a,b   Venditti, Danielle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b CHLAREAS Chlamydia Research Association   (France)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Full gene sequence; Genotype; Partial gene sequence

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA;

EID: 79957804603     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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