Cyclospora: An overview

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 429-437

  Soave, Rosemary ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CYCLOSPORA; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; INCUBATION TIME; MORPHOLOGY; OOCYST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOROZOITE;

EID: 0029811008     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.3.429     Document Type: Review

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