Molecular Characterization of Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Samples of Raw Surface Water and Wastewater

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1097-1101

  Xiao, Lihua ^a   Singh, Ajaib ^b   Limor, Josef ^a   Graczyk, Thaddeus K ^c   Gradus, Steve ^b   Lal, Altaf ^a  

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

^b City of Milwaukee Health Department   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; PROTOZOAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FRESH WATER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEWAGE; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0035290990     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.3.1097-1101.2001     Document Type: Article

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