Species-Specific, Nested PCR-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Detection of Single Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2665-2668

  Sturbaum, Gregory D ^a   Reed, Carrie ^a   Hoover, Paul J ^a   Jost, B Helen ^a   Marshall, Marilyn M ^a   Sterling, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL RNA; RNA 18S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM; MICROMANIPULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035377525     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.6.2665-2668.2001     Document Type: Article

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