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Pathophysiological variability of different genotypes of human Blastocystis hominis Egyptian isolates in experimentally infected rats.
Parasitology research - 1 Apr 2008
Hussein Eman M, Hussein Abdalla M, Eida Mohamed M, Atwa Maha M
Abstract excerpt
The genotyping of Blastocystis hominis clinical isolates obtained from 28 gastrointestinal symptomatic patients and 16 asymptomatic individuals were identified by polymerase chain reaction using sequenced-tagged site (STS) primers. Then, pathophysiological variability between different B. hominis genotypes was evaluated in experimentally infected rats. Only four B. hominis subtypes (1, 2, 3, and 4) were detected...
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