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Published on: February 28, 2015
Identification of Balamuthia mandrillaris by PCR assay using the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene as a target
Gregory C Booton1, Jennifer R Carmichael, Govinda S Visvesvara
1Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1292, USA. booton.1@osu.edu
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|January 9, 2003
Abstract:
Balamuthia mandrillaris is an opportunistic pathogen that causes granulomatous amebic meningoencephalitis in animals, including humans. Based on sequence analysis of mitochondrial small-subunit-rRNA genes, we developed primers that amplify a Balamuthia-specific PCR product. These primers will be useful for retrospective analyses of fixed tissues and possible identification of Balamuthia in vivo.
