Cryptosporidiosis: An Emerging, Highly Infectious Threat

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-57

  Guerrant, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; WATER;

ADULT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; ANIMAL; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; STANDARD; WATER SUPPLY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CHILD; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0030623684     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0301.970106     Document Type: Article

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