Entamoeba moshkovskii perspectives of a new agent to be considered in the diagnosis of amebiasis

Acta Tropica

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 139-145

  Heredia, Rubén Darío ^a   Fonseca, Jairo Andrés ^a   López, Myriam Consuelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Entamoebiasis; Environmental health; Epidemiology; Public health

Indexed keywords

ANTIAMEBIC AGENT; DILOXANIDE; DNA; METRONIDAZOLE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PATHOGEN; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AMEBIASIS; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CULTIVATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIABILITY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; HUMANS;

ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII;

EID: 84863429314     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.05.012     Document Type: Review

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