Species and Strain-specific Typing of Cryptosporidium Parasites in Clinical and Environmental Samples

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 687-692

  Xiao, Lihua ^a   Sulaiman, Irshad ^a   Fayer, Ronald ^b   Lal, Altaf A ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; Genotype; Phylogeny; Ribosomal RNA

Indexed keywords

BAILEYI; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM BAILEYI; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SERPENTIS; FELIS; OSTREIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS; SUS SCROFA;

RIBOSOME RNA; WATER;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; WATER;

EID: 0032151729     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02761998000500022     Document Type: Article

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