Comparative evaluation of several techniques for purification of cryptosporidium parvum oocysts from rat feces

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-40

  Suresh, Poosala ^a   Rehg, Jerold E ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIALYSIS; FECES; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; RAT; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION;

ANIMAL; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; GLASS; PARASITOLOGY; POVIDONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029656031     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.1.38-40.1996     Document Type: Article

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