Genotyping human and bovine isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of a repetitive DNA sequence

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 137, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 207-211

  Bonnin, Alain ^a   Fourmaux, Marie Noelle ^b   Dubremetz, Jean François ^b   Nelson, Richard Gordon ^c   Gobet, Philippe ^a   Harly, Géraldine ^d   Buisson, Marielle ^a   Puygauthier Toubas, Dominique ^e   Gabriel Pospisil, Florence ^f   Naciri, Muriel ^g   Camerlynck, Patrick ^a  

^a DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Lab Departemental de la Cote d'Or   (France)

^e REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^g CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

coccidia genetic marker; Cryptosporidium parvum; DNA repetitious region; polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0029946662     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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