DNA sequence similarity between California isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1584-1586

  Pereira, Maria Das Graças C ^a   Atwill, Edward R ^a   Crawford, Melissa R ^a   Lefebvre, Rance B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0031980274     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1584-1586.1998     Document Type: Article

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