"candidatus Mesochlamydia elodeae" (Chlamydiae: Parachlamydiaceae), a novel chlamydia parasite of free-living amoebae

Parasitology Research

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 829-838

  Corsaro, Daniele ^a   Müller, Karl Dieter ^b   Wingender, Jost ^b   Michel, Rolf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c BUNDESWEHRZENTRALKRANKENHAUS KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; DNA 18S;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CANDIDATUS MESOCHLAMYDIA ELODEAE; CHLAMYDIA; ENDOPARASITE; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCAMOEBA; SACCAMOEBA LACUSTRIS; SPHINGOMONAS KOREENSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMOEBOZOA; CHLAMYDIALES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMOEBOZOA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIAE; ELODEA; ELODEA SP.; PARACHLAMYDIACEAE; SACCAMOEBA; SPHINGOMONAS KOREENSIS; TUBULINEA; VANNELLA;

EID: 84878351139     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-3213-2     Document Type: Article

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