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Citation
Gilchrist CA, Ali IK, Kabir M, Alam F, Scherbakova S, Ferlanti E, Weedall GD, Hall N, Haque R, Petri WA, Caler E
A Multilocus Sequence Typing System (MLST) Reveals a High Level of Diversity and a Genetic Component to Entamoeba histolytica Virulence.
BMC microbiology. 2012 Dec 01; 12: 151.
Abstract
The outcome of an Entamoeba histolytica infection is variable and can result in either asymptomatic carriage, immediate or latent disease (diarrhea/dysentery/amebic liver abscess). An E. histolytica multilocus genotyping system based on tRNA gene-linked arrays has shown that genetic differences exist among parasites isolated from patients with different symptoms however, the tRNA gene-linked arrays cannot be located in the current assembly of the E. histolytica Reference genome (strain HM-1:IMSS) and are highly variable.