First molecular identification of Entamoeba moshkovskii in Malaysia

Parasitology

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1521-1525

  Anuar, Tengku Shahrul ^a   Al Mekhlafi, Hesham M ^b   Ghani, Mohamed Kamel Abdul ^c   Azreen, Siti Nor ^a   Md Salleh, Fatmah ^a   Ghazali, Nuraffini ^a   Bernadus, Mekadina ^a   Moktar, Norhayati ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Entamoeba moshkovskii; Malaysia; Orang Asli; single round PCR

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDIMENTATION; STAINING; TROPHOZOITE;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84867818333     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012001485     Document Type: Article

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