Molecular epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis outbreaks and transmission in British Columbia, Canada

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-69

  Ong, Corinne S L ^a   Eisler, Diane L ^a   Goh, Swee Han ^a   Tomblin, Joan ^b   Awad El Kariem, Fatih M ^c   Beard, Charles B ^d   Xiao, Lihua ^d   Sulaiman, Irshad ^d   Lal, Altaf ^d   Fyfe, Murray ^e   King, Arlene ^e   Bowie, William R ^f   Isaac Renton, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC Biomedical Laboratories Ltd   (Canada)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e BRITISH COLUMBIA CENTRE FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; RIBOSOME RNA; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0032780936     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.61.63     Document Type: Article

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