The identification and characterisation of an unusual genotype of Cryptosporidium from human faeces as Cryptosporidium meleagridis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-194

  Pedraza Díaz, Susana ^a   Amar, Corinne ^a   McLauchlin, Jim ^a  

^a Food Safety Microbiology Laboratory Div of Gastrointestinal Infections   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

COWP; Cryptosporidium meleagridis; Cryptosporidium parvum; Human infection; rRNA; TRAP C1

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; RNA 18S; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; DIARRHEA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; FECES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM MELEAGRIDIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0034664041     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00278-0     Document Type: Article

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