Survey of Naegleria fowleri in Geothermal Recreational Waters of Guadeloupe (French West Indies)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Moussa, Mirna ^a   de Jonckheere, Johan F ^b,c   Guerlotté, Jérôme ^a,d,e   Richard, Vincent ^f   Bastaraud, Alexandra ^a   Romana, Marc ^g   Talarmin, Antoine ^a  

^a Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe   (Guadeloupe)

^b DE DUVE INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

^g INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

AMEBIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENOTYPE; GUADELOUPE; HOT SPRINGS; HUMANS; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NAEGLERIA; NAEGLERIA FOWLERI; NAEGLERIA LOVANIENSIS;

EID: 84872559301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054414     Document Type: Article

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