Unusual Cryptosporidium species recovered from human faeces: First description of Cryptosporidium felis and Cryptosporidium 'dog type' from patients in England

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 293-296

  Pedraza Diaz, S ^a   Amar, C ^a   Iversen, A M ^a   Stanley, P J ^a   McLauchlin, J ^a  

^a CENTRAL PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; THROMBOSPONDIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; OOCYST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM FELIS;

EID: 0035116184     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-50-3-293     Document Type: Article

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