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Description of Virulent Factors and Horizontal Gene Transfers of Keratitis-Associated Amoeba Acanthamoeba

Issam Hasni1,2, Julien Andréani1, Philippe Colson1

  • 1Aix-Marseille Université UM63, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement IRD 198, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM), Microbes, Evolution, Phylogeny and Infection (MEΦI), Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) - Méditerranée Infection, 13005 Marseille, France.

Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland)
|March 20, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
Acanthamoeba triangularisfree-living amoebaegenesgenomekeratitispathogenicity

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