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In vitro culture, serologic and molecular analysis of Acanthamoeba isolated from the liver of a keel-billed toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus).
Veterinary parasitology - 19 Jan 2007
Visvesvara Govinda S, Booton Gregory C, Kelley Darryl J, Fuerst Paul, Sriram Rama, Finkelstein Ariana, Garner Michael M
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Members of the genus Acanthamoeba are usually free-living amebae and are found in a variety of ecological niches including soil, fresh and brackish water, dust in air, filters of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning units, swimming pools and hot tubs, etc. Occasionally, they are also known to cause central nervous system infections in humans and other animals. We isolated into culture an amoeba from the...
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