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Genetic variability of Blastocystis sp. isolates obtained from cancer and HIV/AIDS patients.
Parasitology research - 1 Oct 2009
Tan T C, Ong S C, Suresh K G
Abstract excerpt
This represents the first study to determine the genetic diversity of Blastocystis sp. among cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. Forty Blastocystis sp. isolates obtained from 20 cancer and 20 HIV/AIDS patients were genotyped by PCR using seven pairs of known sequenced-tagged site primers. Out of the 40 isolates, 38 were identified as one of the known genotypes and two isolates were negative with all the STS primers....
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