Infections with free-living amebae

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 114, Issue , 2013, Pages 153-168

  Visvesvara, Govinda S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba spp.; Balamuthia mandrillaris; Naegleria fowleri; Primary amebic meningoencephalitis; Sappinia pedata

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879869207     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53490-3.00010-8     Document Type: Chapter

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