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Acanthamoeba genotype T4 detected in naturally-infected feline corneas found to be in homology with those causing human keratitis.
Tropical biomedicine - 1 Mar 2013
Ithoi I, Mahmud R, Abdul Basher M H, Jali A, Abdulsalam A M, Ibrahim J, Mak J W
Abstract excerpt
A total of 10 out of 65 cornea swab samples from cats with eye symptoms showed Acanthamoeba-like morphology after cultivation. By PCR and DNA sequencing of Acanthamoeba diagnostic fragment 3 (DF3), all 10 isolates from the positive samples were categorized into two homologous groups of AfC1 (PM1, PM2, PM3, PF6, KM7, KF8, KMK9) and AfC2 (PM4, PM5, KFK10) due to the presence of bases A(354) and G(354),...
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