Genetic polymorphism at the β-tubulin locus among human and animal isolates of Cryptosporidium parvum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 173-179

  Cacciò, Simone ^a   Roman, Wieger ^b   Van Dijk, Karin ^b   Pozio, Edoardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Tubulin gene; Cryptosporidium parvum; Genetic polymorphism; Multilocus analysis

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENE DELETION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GOAT; HUMAN; LAMB; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 0032898151     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00543-6     Document Type: Article

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