Presence of heterogeneous copies of the small subunit rRNA gene in Cryptosporidium parvum human and marsupial genotypes and Cryptosporidium felis

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages

  Xiao, Lihua ^a   Limor, Josef R ^a   Li, Lixia ^a   Morgan, Una ^b   Thompson, R C A ^b   Lal, Altaf A ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; RIBOSOMAL RNA;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CATS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENES, RRNA; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FELIS; METATHERIA;

EID: 0033199915     PISSN: 10665234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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