Isolation of Acanthamoeba species in surface waters of Gilan province-north of Iran

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 473-477

  Mahmoudi, Mohammad Reza ^a,b,c   Taghipour, Niloofar ^d   Eftekhar, Mohammad ^d   Haghighi, Ali ^d   Karanis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b GUILAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; DRINKING WATER; FRESH WATER; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FILTRATION; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; IRAN; LAGOON; LAKE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SPRING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

ACANTHAMOEBA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FRESH WATER; IRAN; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84857040112     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2530-1     Document Type: Article

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