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T C Tan1, S C Ong, K G Suresh.
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This represents the first study to determine the genetic diversity of Blastocystis sp. among cancer and HIV/AIDS patients. Forty Blastocystis sp. isolates obtained from 20 cancer and 20 HIV/AIDS patients were genotyped by PCR using seven pairs of known sequenced-tagged site primers. Out of the 40 isolates, 38 were identified as one of the known genotypes and two isolates were negative with all the STS primers. Blastocystis sp. subtype 3 which is reported to be associated with disease was found to be predominant among the study subjects.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19603182 DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1551-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Parasitol Res ISSN: 0932-0113 Impact factor: 2.289