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First isolation and characterization in humans of Entamoeba histolytica (laboratory-made) zymodeme XX
1Laboratory of Clinical Parasitology, University-IRCCS San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
Parasitology Research
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Isoenzyme analysis by starch-gel electrophoresis has proved to be a useful method for the biochemical differentiation of pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica and non-pathogenic E. dispar isolates. Of the known 24 zymodemes, 3 are laboratory-made and have not previously been identified in humans. Parasitology screening was carried out in a psychiatric institution. Two amebic stocks were isolated and characterized that had never previously been found in humans and that have protein patterns identical to that of the laboratory-made zymodeme XX.