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Ines Sifaoui1, María Reyes-Batlle2, Atteneri López-Arencibia2

  • 1University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health, Universidad de La Laguna, Avda Francisco Sanchez s/n, Campus de Anchieta, 38271, la Laguna Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; Laboratoire Matériaux-Molécules et Applications, IPEST, B.P 51 2070, La Marsa, University of Carthage, Tunisia.

Experimental Parasitology
|May 7, 2019
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Keywords:
Acanthamoeba castellanii NeffAmoebicidal activityPathogen boxTrophozoite

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