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. 2018 Oct;148(4):456-459.
doi: 10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_1564_17.

Genotyping of Acanthamoeba spp. isolated from patients with granulomatous amoebic encephalitis

Kirti Megha  1 , Rakesh Sehgal  1 , Sumeeta Khurana  1
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Genotyping of Acanthamoeba spp. isolated from patients with granulomatous amoebic encephalitis

Kirti Megha et al. Indian J Med Res. 2018 Oct.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Phylogenetic tree constructed with the neighbour-joining method using nucleotide sequences of diagnostic fragment 3 region of 18S rDNA gene of Acanthamoeba granulomatous amoebic encephalitis isolates. Isolates from this study are shown in bold face and triangle shape. AC, Acanthamoeba isolates.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Acanthamoeba cysts in brain abscess stained with (A) calcofluor-white stain, and (B) haematoxylin and eosin stain visualized by microscopy (×1000).
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