Entamoeba moshkovskii is associated with diarrhea in infants and causes diarrhea and colitis in mice

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 206, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 744-751

  Shimokawa, Chikako ^a   Kabir, Mamun ^b   Taniuchi, Mami ^c   Mondal, Dinesh ^b   Kobayashi, Seiki ^d   Ali, Ibne Karim M ^c   Sobuz, Shihab U ^b   Senba, Masachika ^a   Houpt, Eric ^c   Haque, Rashidul ^b   Petri, William A ^c   Hamano, Shinjiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ICDDRB Laboratory Sciences Division   (Bangladesh)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMEBIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TROPHOZOITE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BANGLADESH; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED CBA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 84863654500     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jis414     Document Type: Article

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