Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR analysis of bovine Cryptosporidium parvum strains isolated from the watershed of the Red River of the North

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2262-2265

  Shianna, Kevin V ^a,c   Rytter, Russell ^a   Spanier, Jonathan G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University ^*  (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTOZOON; RIVER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MAMMALIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031777386     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.6.2262-2265.1998     Document Type: Article

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