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Intestinal amebae

Ibne Karim M Ali1

  • 1Division of Foodborne Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road Northeast, Mailstop D-66, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|May 26, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
Amebiasis laboratory diagnosisAntigen detectionEntamoeba BangladeshiEntamoeba disparEntamoeba histolyticaEntamoeba moshkovskiiMolecular detectionSerology

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