Differentiating human from animal isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 681-685

  Sulaiman, Irshad M ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Yang, Chunfu ^a   Escalante, Lilian ^a   Moore, Anne ^a   Beard, Charles B ^a   Arrowood, Michael J ^a   Lal, Altaf A ^a,b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; THROMBOSPONDIN;

CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DEER; DOG; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW;

EID: 0031729418     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0404.980424     Document Type: Review

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