Molecular karyotype analysis of Cryptosporidium parvum: Evidence for eight chromosomes and a low-molecular-size molecule

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-13

  Blunt, Dennis S ^a   Khramtsov, Nikolai V ^a   Upton, Steve J ^a   Montelone, Beth A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DENSITOMETRY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; KARYOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031055076     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.4.1.11-13.1997     Document Type: Article

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