Recent Developments in Blastocystis Research

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-32

  Clark, C Graham ^a   van der Giezen, Mark ^b   Alfellani, Mohammed A ^a,d   Stensvold, C Rune ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d SEBHA UNIVERSITY   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

Author keywords

Blastocystis; Genome; Irritable bowel syndrome; Multilocus sequence typing; Phylogeny; Small subunit ribosomal RNA gene; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST RANGE; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MICROBIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TOPOGRAPHY;

BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84879373085     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407706-5.00001-0     Document Type: Chapter

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