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Fluorescence amplified fragment length polymorphism for subtyping of genotypes of Acanthamoeba isolated from patients with keratitis.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 Jan 2011
Prashanth K, Pasricha Gunisha, Sharma Savitri
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a painful and vision-threatening ocular infection. The differentiation of Acanthamoeba at the species and subspecies level is complicated. Nearly all the AK isolates have been shown to belong to T4 genotype when analysed by ribosomal RNA gene sequences and there is no universally acceptable method for differentiation of different subtypes of T4. The purpose...
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