Article
Genotyping Encephalitozoon cuniculi by multilocus analyses of genes with repetitive sequences.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jun 2001
Xiao L, Li L, Visvesvara G S, Moura H, Didier E S, Lal A A
Abstract excerpt
Encephalitozoon cuniculi infects a wide range of mammalian hosts. Three genotypes based on the number of GTTT repeats in the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the rRNA have been described, of which genotypes I and III have been identified in humans. In this study, the genetic diversity of E. cuniculi was examined at the polar tube protein (PTP) and spore wall protein I (SWP-1) loci. Nucleotide sequence...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Encephalitozoon cuniculi
- Encephalitozoonosis
- Fungal Proteins
- Genes, Protozoan
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Protozoan Proteins
- Rabbits
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid