Some secrets are revealed: parasitic keratitis amoebae as vectors of the scarcely described pandoraviruses to humans

Parasitology Research

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3759-3764

  Scheid, Patrick ^a   Balczun, Carsten ^b   Schaub, Günter A ^b  

^a BUNDESWEHRZENTRALKRANKENHAUS KOBLENZ   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Acanthamoeba keratitis; Endocytobiont; First association to humans; First detection; Free living amoeba; Pandoravirus

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOFILM; CLASSIFICATION; CONTACT LENS; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EYE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KERATITIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VIRAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA SP.; ACANTHAMOEBIDAE; AMOEBA (GENUS);

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOFILMS; CONTACT LENSES; DISEASE VECTORS; EYE; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRUS PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; VIRUSES;

EID: 84918842597     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-014-4041-3     Document Type: Article

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