A most-probable-number assay for enumeration of infectious Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 3936-3941

  Slifko, Theresa R ^a   Huffman, Debra E ^a   Rose, Joan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; SPOROZOITE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032824376     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.3936-3941.1999     Document Type: Article

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