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Progress on Classification and Identification of Acanthamoeba

 PIAO  Jie, XUAN  Ying-Hua, ZHENG  Shan-Zi   

  1. Department of Pathogenic Biology，College of Basic Medicine，Yanbian University，Yanji 133002，China
  • Online:2011-06-30 Published:2012-09-27

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Abstract: As a pathogenic free-living amoeba， Acanthamoeba is easy to be recognized at the genus level， but difficult to identify at species level on the morphological basis. This review summarizes the methods for Acanthamoeba species classification and identification.