Free-living amoebae recovered from human stool samples in Strongyloides agar culture

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 699-700

  Bradbury, Richard S ^a,b  

^a MRC Keneba ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RNA 18S;

AFRICA; AGAR MEDIUM; AMOEBA (GENUS); DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE FLORA; KOGA AGAR CULTURE; LETTER; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

AGAR; AMOEBA; ANIMALS; FECES; GAMBIA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; PARASITOLOGY; STRONGYLOIDES;

EID: 84893064902     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02738-13     Document Type: Letter

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