Detection of infectious Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and cockles (Cerastoderma edule)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1866-1870

  Gomez Bautista, M ^a   Ortega Mora, L M ^a   Tabares, E ^a   Lopez Rodas, V ^a   Costas, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSC; PARASITE INFESTATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTOZOA;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIVALVIA; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FRESH WATER; HUMANS; MICE; MOLLUSCA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RUMINANTS; SEAWATER; SHELLFISH; SPAIN;

BIVALVIA; CERASTODERMA EDULE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MOLLUSCA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034021733     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.5.1866-1870.2000     Document Type: Article

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