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Isolation, morphologic, serologic and molecular identification of Acanthamoeba T4 genotype from the liver of a Temminck's tragopan (Tragopan temminckii).
Veterinary parasitology - 24 Jun 2010
Visvesvara Govinda S, Shoff Megan E, Sriram Rama, Booton Gregory C, Crary Monica, Fuerst Paul A, Hanley Christopher S, Garner Michael M
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Members of the genus Acanthamoeba are usually free-living amoebae that are found in a variety of ecological niches including soil, fresh and brackish water, dust in the air, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning filters, swimming pools and hot tubs. Occasionally they are also known to cause central nervous system infections in humans and animals. We isolated into culture an amoeba from the liver of a...
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