Cryptosporidium parvum in oysters from commercial harvesting sites in the Chesapeake Bay

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 706-710

  Fayer, Ronald ^a,e   Lewis, Earl J ^b   Trout, James M ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^c   Jenkins, Mark C ^a   Higgins, James ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^d   Lal, Altaf A ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GILL; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; OYSTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0032747934     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid0505.990513     Document Type: Article

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