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SUBMITTER: Xiao L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC88119 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xiao L L Li L L Visvesvara G S GS Moura H H Didier E S ES Lal A A AA
Journal of clinical microbiology 20010601 6
Encephalitozoon cuniculi infects a wide range of mammalian hosts. Three genotypes based on the number of GTTT repeats in the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) of the rRNA have been described, of which genotypes I and III have been identified in humans. In this study, the genetic diversity of E. cuniculi was examined at the polar tube protein (PTP) and spore wall protein I (SWP-1) loci. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the PTP gene divided 11 E. cuniculi isolates into three genotypes in congruence ...[more]