β-Tubulin mRNA as a marker of Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst viability

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1584-1588

  Widmer, Giovanni ^a,b   Orbacz, Elizabeth A ^a   Tzipori, Saul ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA DEGRADATION;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032936392     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.4.1584-1588.1999     Document Type: Article

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