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SUBMITTER: Borquez-Roman MA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7400236 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borquez-Román Manuel Alejandro MA Lares-Jiménez Luis Fernando LF Rodriguez-Anaya Libia Zulema LZ Gonzalez-Galaviz Jose Reyes JR Fuerst Paul A PA Ibarra-Gámez José Cuauhtémoc JC Casillas-Hernández Ramón R Lares-Villa Fernando F
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20200717 7
Two amoeboid organisms were obtained from water samples taken from a thermal spring, "Agua Caliente", in Northwestern Mexico. The isolates were obtained when samples were cultivated at 37 °C on non-nutrient agar coated with <i>Escherichia coli.</i> The initial identification of the isolates was performed morphologically using light microscopy. The samples were found to have trophozoite morphology consistent with members of the genus <i>Stenamoeba</i>, a genus derived in 2007 from within the abol ...[more]