Differentiation between human and animal isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum using molecular and biological markers

Parasitology Research

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 297-301

  Awad El Kariem, Fatih M ^a   Robinson, Heidi A ^b   Petry, Franz ^b,d   McDonald, Vincent ^b   Evans, David ^b   Casemore, David ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c GLAN CLWYD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ISOENZYME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAMB; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; ISOENZYMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARASITE EGG COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MURINAE; OVIS ARIES; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031944524     PISSN: 00443255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004360050399     Document Type: Article

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