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Acanthamoeba

Authors :
S. Kilvington
D. G. White
Source :
Reviews in Medical Microbiology. 5:12-26
Publication Year :
1994
Publisher :
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1994.

Abstract

Acanthamoeba is a small, free-living amoeba which is characterized by a feeding and replicating trophozoite and dormant cyst stage. The resistance of acanthamoeba cysts to extremes of temperature, disinfection and desiccation accounts for the ubiquitous distribution of the organism in our environmen

Details

ISSN :
0954139X
Volume :
5
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Reviews in Medical Microbiology
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........e6e48dc8737deb9d4159ff3b6f7c7283
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1097/00013542-199401000-00003