Potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae isolated from hospital wards with immunodeficient patients in Tehran, Iran

Parasitology Research

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 575-580

  Lasjerdi, Zohreh ^a   Niyyati, Maryam ^a   Haghighi, Ali ^a   Shahabi, Saed ^a   Biderouni, Farid Tahvildar ^a   Taghipour, Niloofar ^a   Eftekhar, Mohamad ^a   Nazemalhosseini Mojarad, Ehsan ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; GENOTYPE; HARTMANNELLA; HARTMANNELLA VERMIFORMIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IRAN; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VAHLKAMPFIA; VAHLKAMPFIA AVARA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; BIOFILMS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; HARTMANNELLA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IRAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SCHIZOPYRENIDA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA; HARTMANNELLA; HARTMANNELLA VERMIFORMIS; VAHLKAMPFIA; VAHLKAMPFIA AVARA; VAHLKAMPFIIDAE;

EID: 80052315832     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2288-5     Document Type: Article

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