Evaluation of Cryptosporidium parvum genotyping techniques

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4431-4435

  Sulaiman, Irshad M ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^a   Lal, Altaf A ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; EIMERIA; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MURIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM SERPENTIS; EIMERIA; EIMERIA NEISCHULZI; EIMERIA PAPILLATA; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032832629     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4431-4435.1999     Document Type: Article

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