Volume 9, Number 5—May 2003

Research

Entamoeba moshkovskii Infections in Children in Bangladesh

Ibne Karin M. Ali*†¹, Mohammad Bakhtiar Hossain†¹, Shantanu Roy†, Patrick F. Ayeh-Kumi‡, William A. Petri§, Rashidul Haque†, and C. Graham Clark* 

Author affiliations: *London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England; †International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ‡University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana; §University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA; 1These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Figure 1. Entamoeba moshkovskii–specific nested SSU rDNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products. Odd- and even-numbered lanes represent undigested and XhoI-digested PCR products, respectively. Lanes 1/2, E. moshkovskii Laredo; lanes 3/4–5/6, DNA from stool samples. M, a 50-bp DNA ladder (Invitrogen Corp.).

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